Avante Cosmetic Appointments & Website
Freelance
Avante Cosmetic Website & Appointments Application
Avante Cosmetic is a beauty business in Denver, Colorado.
The website built with Next.js and React. It features an online appointment system where Clients can submit appointments via the website. Features include user authentication, a sophisticated notification system, and an admin portal where the business owner can manage appointments and clients.
It uses Contentful to manage the general page content and takes advantage of all of the bleeding edge Next.js features like React Server Components, dynamic sitemaps, etc.
2024 and beyond
Moving from Rails API + Frontend App to a single app
Version 1.0 of Avante Cosmetic had two systems deployed––a backend Rails API and a frontend web app using Next.js. Both of these services were deployed separately and utilized an Ansible playbook for deployments that was finicky and often problematic. In 2024, I opted to move it off of this complicated stack and chose to migrate to use TRPC to allow for a full-stack experience. By moving away from a microservices pattern and moving everything into a single codebase, the development is now swift and easy. The site is deployed on Vercel and no longer requires the complicated deployment steps it did to deploy prior.
Notifications System
Perhaps the most complicated part of the Avante Cosmetic website is in its notifications. There are several notification paths around appointments, like when an appointment is submitted, confirmed, and when a reminder is in order. To manage these notifications we use a daily cron task that loops through on an daily interval instead of using a job scheduler. We use Twilio for SMS notifications and Postmark for email.
I am currently accepting inquiries for new programming projects, particularly those architecting, building, or contributing to sophisticated web applications using modern tooling and frameworks (think
You can also e-mail me at hello@andrewmart.in or download my resume.
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.JS, Elixir, or Ruby on Rails). You can also e-mail me at hello@andrewmart.in or download my resume.