HouseBrands Dashboard

Built while leading engineering work at Mediusware Ltd, as part of ongoing platform development for a business dashboard product.

The business needed a scalable dashboard with a maintainable, API-first foundation across frontend and backend.

Led development end to end — architecture, backend APIs and frontend implementation.

An API-first architecture: a Laravel backend exposing REST APIs consumed by a Next.js frontend, keeping frontend and backend independently deployable and testable.

• Laravel for the backend to move fast within an existing team convention.
• Next.js for the frontend to get server rendering and API-route flexibility together.
• A REST API boundary between the two so the frontend and backend can evolve independently.

The Next.js frontend consumes the REST API, with the UI built as typed, reusable components rather than one large page-level component.

The Laravel backend exposes REST endpoints designed API-first, so the same API surface could support additional frontends without backend changes.

• Keeping the dashboard maintainable as both frontend and backend grew.
• Designing an API contract that stayed stable as new dashboard features were added.

Structuring the system around a clean API-first contract meant frontend and backend work could proceed independently, with the API surface as the single source of truth for what the dashboard could do.

• Delivered a scalable, maintainable API-first dashboard architecture.