📚 Blog Website Case Study

Overview

This blog platform was designed to help content creators, small businesses, and thought leaders publish and manage their posts effortlessly. It is built with React on the frontend and Strapi as the headless CMS backend.

Objectives

• Build a clean and modern blog interface
• Fetch and display blog posts dynamically using an API
• Make it easy for non-technical users to add content via Strapi
• Ensure responsiveness and fast performance

Tech Stack

• React.js — frontend framework
• React Router — client-side navigation
• Strapi CMS — backend content management
• Axios / Fetch — for API communication
• Bootstrap — for responsive grid and layout
• Netlify — frontend hosting
• Render — backend hosting

Key Features

• Homepage with featured and latest blog posts
• Single post page with rich content formatting
• Dynamic routing using React Router
• Mobile-responsive and lightweight UI
• Admin dashboard via Strapi to manage posts and authors

Challenges Solved

Integrating a headless CMS like Strapi with React involved understanding APIs, managing dynamic routing, and securing CORS and image assets. I implemented clean UI layouts using Bootstrap grid system and ensured fast performance across devices.

Ideal For

• Content creators who want an easy-to-manage blog
• Agencies looking to offer clients a flexible publishing system
• Businesses that want a branded blog to boost SEO

Interested in a custom blog?

Let us work together! Contact me to discuss your blog project.