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Full StackLiveEducation · 2026

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Lash & brow course platform, full admin + user management, modular curriculum.

Role
Full Stack
Year
2026
Category
Education
Stack
ReactRedux ToolkitStyled ComponentsNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDBAWSJavaScript

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02 · Outcomes

What the build actually shipped.

Numbers, not adjectives. The stats below are pulled from production. Anything still live, still measured.

2026

shipped

live, in production

End-to-end

front · back · admin

user + course management

Modular

curriculum + lessons

structured per module

Operator-grade

admin tooling

trainer runs the platform

03 · Overview

What it does.

Course platform for a lash-and-brow trainer with a roster of paid students. Modular curriculum with video lessons, progress tracking, and a downloadable workbook per module. Full admin covers user accounts, course publishing, enrolment, payment reconciliation, and student comms — built so the operator keeps teaching instead of running a back-office.

05 · Process

How the build actually ran.

Four phases. Each one with a deliverable the client could see, not a slide deck of intent.

  1. 01

    Conversation

    Trainer had a roster of paid students and was running enrolment + comms manually. Brief was: a platform where she keeps teaching, not running a back-office. Course content stays modular so she can iterate the curriculum without engineering involvement.

  2. 02

    Plan

    React + Redux Toolkit on the front. Node + Express + MongoDB back. AWS for video + asset hosting. Admin built as a first-class surface alongside the public catalogue, not an afterthought.

  3. 03

    Build

    Curriculum schema first — modules → lessons → workbook downloads. Enrolment + payment reconciliation second. Student progress + completion logic last, once the content shape was stable enough not to break completion records.

  4. 04

    Ship & Maintain

    Live since 2026. Trainer runs enrolment, payments, content updates, and student comms from the admin. Students get a clean course player, downloadable workbook per module, and progress tracking that survives across sessions.

06 · Decisions

The choices that shaped the build.

Tech is downstream of decisions. These are the calls made early enough to compound the right way. The ones a code review six months later still agrees with.

Modular curriculum schema over flat lessons

Courses live as ordered modules; each module owns its lessons + workbook + completion state. Trainer can reshuffle a course without touching lesson content.

MongoDB for content modeling

Course content is heterogeneous — video, text, downloads, quizzes. Document model fits the shape better than forcing it through SQL relations across a dozen join tables.

Admin alongside public from day one

Same engineer, both surfaces — trainer's admin tools wired before the public catalogue. Less rebuilding once enrolment hits scale, no 'we'll add admin later' debt.

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06 · Let’s build

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