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When Jean Dousset needed to engineer a custom inventory management system that could be used across their websites, they asked Curious Minds to architect a solution.

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The challenge

Jean Dousset needed a way to curate a unique set of diamonds that met their stringent criteria for excellence. This unique set of diamonds needed to be available and searchable to their retail site via a private API. While the API needed to be agnostic, we also needed to create a WooCommerce plugin that would display results, and populate products with custom configurations.

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Rock solid foundations

We build the back-end of this application using the Laravel framework. This allowed us to quickly define the appropriate authentication and authorization logic, routing and middleware. Laravel allowed us to organize the project in a concise and logical format. This organization would be crucial for the next steps.

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Nimble front-end

For the admin interface we decided on EmberJs. EmberJs is a rock-solid option for front-end development. It's battle-tested, and enterprise ready. Most importantly, from a development standpoint, Ember's API is mature. This is essential for maintainability as the project is updated. Ember is also fairly strict in terms of it's coding practices. While this means the learning curve is a bit steep, it also has the effect of keeping a larger development team on track.

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Shop ready

Getting the back-end of the inventory management system in place was only one part of the task. The next was to get the inventory in the hands of the consumers. In order to do that, we needed to create UI components that could preview, search and consume the inventory management API. The perfect tool for this was Vue.js. Using Vue allowed our developers to quickly prototype the UI interfaces. We were able to package the Vue components into WordPress plugins for use on the main consumer sites. Learn more about Curious Minds Media's Laravel development services.

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Conclusion

Creating a custom inventory management system that includes everything from the data persistence layer, all the way out to the user interfaces is not a trivial task. However, with the right organization and coding practices, you can future-proof your product, and build something amazing. Discover more Laravel and Javascript case studies.

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Technologies and services we work with:

Laravel Laravel
WordPress WordPress
React ReactJS
EmberJS EmberJS
woocommerce WooCommerce
next.js NextJS
gatsby Gatsby
Shopify Shopify
VueJs VueJS
contentful Contentful
next.js JAMStack
gatsby Laravel Jigsaw
WPEngine WP Engine
Laravel Livewire Laravel Livewire
Netlify Netlify

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    • It is a pleasure to work with the team at Curious Minds. The ecommerce site they built for us performs very efficiently and effectively. And update or edit request is done quickly, and their suggestions are always great and make the site even better.

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