Case Study · Community & Education
Community Learning & Reading Platform
A multi-language, full-stack platform where a community organisation runs reading programmes: members, uploads, real-time discussion, and an admin console.
- Industry
- Community & Education
- Timeline
- 2025
- What we did
- Full-stack product development · Authentication & authorization · Real-time features
The Challenge
What the client was up against
The organisation coordinated reading programmes across several countries using messaging groups and shared drives. Files went missing, nobody could tell who had actually participated, and the volunteers running the programme had no admin view at all. They also needed the interface in more than one language, right-to-left included.
Our Approach
How we solved it
Two products, one codebase
Members and administrators need very different things, so we built two distinct interfaces on a shared backend — a clean member experience, and an admin console with the moderation, reporting, and user-management tools volunteers actually needed.
Uploads that don't melt the server
File uploads go straight from the browser to cloud storage using pre-signed URLs, so the API never becomes a bottleneck. Anything slow — media processing, notifications, digests — runs on a background queue instead of blocking the request.
Built for more than one language
Internationalisation was designed in from the first commit rather than retrofitted: every string is externalised and the layout handles both reading directions, so adding a new locale is a content task, not an engineering project.
What We Built
Inside the solution
- Separate member and administrator interfaces on a shared API
- Secure authentication with role-based permissions
- Direct-to-cloud file uploads via pre-signed URLs
- Asynchronous background job processing for heavy work
- Real-time messaging and activity feeds
- Multi-language support including right-to-left layouts
Technology
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- NestJS
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Cloud storage
The Outcome
Replaced a scattered mix of chat groups and file shares with one auditable platform.
- 2
- Purpose-built interfaces: members and admins
- Multi
- Language support, including RTL, from day one
- Real-time
- Messaging, replacing external chat groups
Internationalisation and background processing are cheap on day one and painfully expensive to retrofit on day three hundred.
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