MyVenu was a small startup business that I was hired to develop a web venue booking application. I started out contracted to develop the landing page to act as a proof of concept for investors but eventually was taken on as a director to lead the software and web development side of the business. It was a greatly challenging project that I thoroughly enjoyed overcoming obstacles and even with my limited knowledge of web development, got fairly far through each implementation stage of my design however ultimately had to stop due to personal issues. Out of university that was my first real taste at client-driven development since it was not my own personal projects anymore and I was attempting to develop to a professional standard, balancing my workload and managing the project as best as I could.

Even though the business did not take off as well as any of us anticipated, I was still extremely happy with the website I had managed to develop, it was built from the ground up using Laravel, Cashier / Stripe, Vue, Vuex, Sanctum and hosted via Digital Ocean. It was my first major project using a separate business design with an API focused Laravel backend connected to a full Vue/Vuex/Router frontend that, even though I felt way out of my depth, still managed to achieve and was overall happy with the design of. The website was deploying using AWS and also leveraged Amazon's RDS service and S3 for image storing, including SDS for the mailing queue system integrated with Laravel and was a massive milestone for developing a lot of skills that I could use again today.

Emily Eats is my most recent laravel project developed as a service for my partner who has a great passion for cooking and loves trying new meals and ingredients in our daily lives. I set out a goal to develop a website where she could easily keep track of meals, ingredients and ratings/reviews. Since she has had trouble storing this information herself, I wanted to make a friendly way of easily uploading images and meals as well as the ability to quickly share with our curious families. It comes with a basic view / search page as well as front admin end for both me and my partner to manage the meals, ingredients and categories.

I wanted to start a fresh full-stack application and leverage some of Laravel's more advanced features such as Inertia, a way of linking Laravel routes and authentication with Vue front end components to take advantage of Vue's development cycle as well as Laravel's powerful routing/request facades. Overall I enjoyed this project as it was a major step forward in developing with TailwindCSS as oppose to bootstrap or material and gave me a good outlook into utility first/ mobile design and development. This is also the first time I chose to host with DigitalOcean and deploy using their 'App' setup which was another step for me in terms of learning deployment and configuration.