Property browsing platform for high-end real estate listings with component-driven architecture and responsive design.
Client: Freelance project for luxury real estate market
Status: Prototype phase (client project paused before production launch)
Focus: Exploring React component architecture, responsive design patterns, and image-heavy content optimization
- Property Listings - Grid view with filtering by property type (villa, apartment, penthouse)
- Property Details - Full-screen image galleries, amenity lists, pricing display
- Contact Forms - Client inquiry system with form validation
- Error Boundaries - Graceful error handling with custom fallback UI
- Toast Notifications - Full-width notification system with success, error, info, warning types
- Animated Buttons - All buttons feature bottom-to-top slide-in animations
- Responsive Spacing - Balanced padding, margins, and whitespace across all sections
Component Architecture:
- Context API for global property and toast notification state management
- Custom hooks (
useProperty,useToast) for data fetching and notifications - Reusable UI components (cards, forms, layouts, toasts)
- Error boundary wrapper for production stability
- Framer Motion animations for smooth transitions and slide-in effects
Performance Optimization:
- React Slick for optimized image carousels
- Lazy loading for property images
- Responsive image srcsets for mobile/desktop
- Code splitting for route-based chunks
Developer Experience:
- ESLint + Prettier for code consistency
- Vite for sub-second HMR
- Tailwind CSS for rapid styling iteration
- TypeScript declarations for third-party libraries
Frontend: React 18, JavaScript (ES6+)
Styling: Tailwind CSS, CSS Modules
Build Tool: Vite
Libraries: React Router, React Slick (image carousels)
Deployment: Netlify
src/ ├── components/ # Reusable UI components │ ├── cards/ # Property card variants │ ├── forms/ # Contact forms with validation │ ├── layouts/ # Page layout components │ └── ui/ # Base UI primitives ├── context/ # Global state (PropertyContext) ├── hooks/ # Custom React hooks ├── pages/ # Route-level components └── utils/ # Validation helpers
✅ Context API for cross-component state sharing
✅ Custom hooks for separating business logic from UI
✅ Error boundaries for production-grade error handling
✅ Compound component patterns for flexible UI composition
✅ Image optimization for gallery-heavy applications
✅ Lazy loading with Intersection Observer
✅ Code splitting for faster initial page loads
✅ CSS Modules for scoped styling without runtime overhead
If rebuilding today:
- TypeScript - Would add full type safety (currently only partial)
- Next.js - Server components for image optimization + SEO
- shadcn/ui - Pre-built accessible components vs. custom builds
- React Query - Server state management vs. Context API
- Playwright - E2E testing for critical user flows
# Install npm install # Development npm run dev # Production build npm run build # Lint npm run lint
Technical:
- Component-driven architecture scales well for content-heavy applications
- Image optimization is critical for real estate sites (10+ images per property)
- Error boundaries prevent single component failures from crashing entire app
Business:
- Client projects can pause for non-technical reasons (funding, strategy pivots)
- Prototypes serve as valuable learning environments for production patterns
- Code quality matters even in projects that don't reach production
Status: Completed prototype phase | Client project paused | Code available for review
Live Demo: luxury-indoor-react.vercel.app (if deployed)
Built by: Lazar Kapsarov