Project Management Platform
Planora is a production-ready, full-stack project management platform built around modern collaborative workflows. It provides a complete environment for planning, tracking, and managing projects through real-time collaboration, Kanban boards, advanced task management, and granular role-based access control.
The platform consists of a Next.js frontend and a layered Express backend communicating through REST APIs and Socket.io. Authentication is implemented using JWT with HttpOnly cookies and refresh token rotation, while real-time synchronization keeps boards, tasks, chat, and project activity instantly updated across connected users.
My primary responsibility was designing the product from the frontend perspective, architecting a scalable application structure, implementing the complete user interface, integrating REST and WebSocket APIs, building permission-aware user experiences, and creating highly responsive collaborative workflows with optimistic updates.
Product Ideation & Full Front-End Development (Next.js / React) I was responsible for designing the product experience, defining the frontend architecture, implementing the complete user interface, integrating REST APIs and Socket.io, building reusable feature modules and custom hooks, implementing optimistic UI patterns, and ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance across the application. The backend—including the REST API, database layer, authentication services, file storage, and real-time event broadcasting—was developed separately. My focus was delivering a production-ready frontend capable of coordinating seamlessly with complex backend services.
Organized the frontend into isolated feature modules (Authentication, Dashboard, Projects, Boards, Tasks, Search, Permissions, Team, Chat, etc.) to maximize scalability, maintainability, and code ownership.
Extracted business logic into reusable hooks such as useBoard, useProjectSocket, usePermissions, useSearch, and useAuth, keeping presentation components clean and reusable.
Implemented a singleton Socket.io client with automatic reconnection, room management, event synchronization, and connection state monitoring.
Used @dnd-kit to support multi-container drag-and-drop with optimistic updates, rollback handling, and keyboard/touch accessibility.
Leveraged React Hook Form and Zod for performant, schema-based validation with minimal re-renders.
Combined Tailwind CSS for layouts and branding with Ant Design for advanced UI components to balance flexibility and development speed.
Implemented centralized Axios interceptors with automatic token refresh and consistent authenticated communication across the application.
Planora demonstrates my ability to design and build large-scale, production-ready collaborative applications rather than traditional CRUD systems. The project showcases expertise in scalable frontend architecture, real-time communication, optimistic state management, advanced role-based access control, and seamless integration with complex backend services, resulting in a highly responsive and reliable collaboration platform.