🛒 E-Commerce Platform — Customer Storefront & Admin Dashboard

📌 Introduction

In today’s competitive digital landscape, delivering a seamless and enjoyable online shopping experience is essential. I contributed to building a comprehensive e-commerce platform that merges a smooth customer-facing experience with a powerful admin dashboard. The project demonstrates advanced web development skills using React, TypeScript, and a modern component-driven architecture.

🚀 Project Overview

This platform was designed to serve two distinct audiences:

• Customers browsing, discovering, and purchasing products

• Admins managing store operations, inventory, orders, and analytics

Both experiences were developed with a strong emphasis on performance, accessibility, and responsive design.

🎯 Key Features

🛍 Customer Storefront

• Smart Navigation: Dynamic filters, categories, and search for fast product discovery

• Enhanced Browsing: Featured collections, related items, and recommendations

• Detailed Product Pages: Rich imagery, descriptions, specs, and reviews

• Streamlined Checkout: Minimal steps, persistent cart, and mobile-optimized flows

• Responsive UI: Polished look and feel across desktop, tablet, and mobile

🛠 Admin Dashboard

• Real-Time Analytics: Sales, orders, traffic metrics visualized with Recharts

• Product Management: Create, edit, sort, and filter large inventories effortlessly

• Order Tracking: Centralized view with status updates and fulfillment tools

• Customer Insights: View order history and manage customer data

• Role-Based Access: Admin, editor, and viewer roles with tailored permissions

• Global Search (Spotlight): Instantly find products, users, orders, etc. via keyboard-triggered spotlight search

⚙️ Technology Stack

• Frontend Framework: React with TypeScript

• Styling: Tailwind CSS + Shadcn UI for fast, clean UI development

• State Management: React Query for server state, caching, and async logic

• Forms: React Hook Form + Zod for schema-based form validation

• Data Visuals: Recharts for admin analytics

• Icons: Lucide React

• Search: Modular search architecture with instant fuzzy results and keyboard nav

🧠 Spotlight Search Architecture

One of the most technically challenging and rewarding parts of this project was the global search system. It includes modular hooks to handle:

// useDashboardSearch.ts
function useDashboardSearch() {
const { allSearchableData } = useSearchData();
const { query, results, performSearch } = useSearchLogic(allSearchableData);
const { navigateToResult } = useSearchNavigation();

return { query, results, handleSearch, navigateToResult };
}

• Separation of Concerns: Modular hooks (useSearchData, useSearchLogic, useSearchNavigation)

• Fuzzy Matching: Tolerant of typos and partial queries

• Instant Feedback: Results update as you type

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Power-user experience with arrow navigation and shortcuts

📦 Product Management UI Highlights

• Drag & Drop: Reorder images and organize categories intuitively

• Batch Editing: Update multiple products at once

• Markdown Support: Rich product descriptions

• Live Validation: Zod-powered inline form validation

⚙️ Performance Optimizations

• Virtualized Lists: Smooth rendering for large data sets

• Lazy Loading: Optimized images and components

• Code Splitting: Smaller bundles for faster initial loads

• Memoization: Efficient rendering of deeply nested UI trees

💡 Lessons Learned

• Modular Architecture = maintainable, scalable code

• Custom Hooks = testable, clean business logic

• Progressive Enhancement = build the core first, polish later

• UX Focus = performance, feedback, and intuitive flows matter

✅ Conclusion

This e-commerce project reflects my ability to deliver polished, scalable, and high-performing web applications. From crafting a compelling user experience to architecting a robust admin backend, I built reusable components, optimized workflows, and paid close attention to the finer details.