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Building & Deploying 3 Real-World Websites with Next.js, React & PostgreSQL
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building and deploying three real-world web projects, each with a different business requirement and technical scope.
## 🚀 Projects
### 1. PSDigiLabs
Live: www.psdigilabs.in
My own digital services and development portfolio, built as a production-ready business website rather than just a static portfolio.
Key work included:
* Next.js App Router architecture
* React + TypeScript development
* Tailwind CSS responsive UI
* Mobile-first responsive design
* Service and pricing pages
* Contact and lead-generation workflow
* PostgreSQL database integration using Neon
* Server-side API routes for lead capture
* Make.com webhook integration
* Google Sheets lead workflow
* Custom-domain deployment
* Vercel production deployment
* Cloudflare DNS and email routing
* SEO foundations including sitemap and robots.txt
* Git/GitHub version control
### 2. Ritika Jaiswal Fashion
Live: www.ritikajaiswalfashion.com
A luxury fashion website developed with a strong focus on visual presentation, responsive design and content management.
Key work included:
* Next.js + React + TypeScript
* Tailwind CSS
* Responsive luxury-fashion UI
* Product/collection management
* Admin dashboard
* CMS-driven content
* Image and media management
* Customer authentication
* Google sign-in
* Customer testimonial workflow
* Testimonial moderation
* Role-based admin functionality
* PostgreSQL/Supabase integration
* Row Level Security
* Dynamic blogs and media pages
* SEO administration
* Hero video optimisation
* Vercel deployment
### 3. Creative Monks
Live: www.creativemonks.in
A cinematic photography and creative-services website designed around portfolio presentation and customer enquiries.
Key work included:
* Next.js + TypeScript
* Responsive frontend development
* Supabase/PostgreSQL backend
* CMS-driven stories, films and commercial projects
* Dynamic service and package pages
* Contact/enquiry management
* Admin dashboard
* Customer testimonial system
* Moderation workflow
* Authentication and database security
* SEO management
* Google Analytics 4 integration
* Responsive testimonial marquee
* Vercel deployment
## 🧠 What I Learned
These projects gave me practical experience across much more than frontend development.
I worked through the complete lifecycle:
Requirement Analysis → UI/UX → Development → Database → Authentication → APIs → Testing → Git/GitHub → Deployment → DNS → Analytics → Automation
I also spent considerable time debugging real production issues involving responsive layouts, database permissions, authentication, email delivery, deployment configuration and third-party integrations.
One of the biggest lessons was that building a production website is not only about writing code. It requires understanding the business requirement, designing the workflow, integrating multiple systems, testing edge cases and maintaining the application after deployment.
## 🛠️ Technologies
Next.js • React • TypeScript • JavaScript • Tailwind CSS • PostgreSQL • Neon • Supabase • REST APIs • Git • GitHub • Vercel • Cloudflare • GA4 • Make.com
These projects are helping me build practical experience across full-stack web development, business workflow automation, QA/testing and technical project implementation.
#nextjs #react #typescript #postgresql #webdevelopment #fullstack #showcase
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