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06Global Retail / React / BFF & GraphQL
Front-end of Natura's global sales platform, built on React with a Node.js BFF and GraphQL — delivered during a simultaneous allocation alongside HDI Seguros.
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Overview
- Client / Product
- Natura (via Sysmap Solutions)
- Period
- Mar 2020 — Jul 2020
- Role
- Front-end Development
- Context
- Global sales platform, developed during a simultaneous allocation with HDI Seguros.
- Team
- Global platform product team.
- Technologies
- ReactNode.jsBFFGraphQLJavaScript
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The challenge
Build front-end for a global platform while allocated to a second client at the same time — which made disciplined architecture the only way to keep both deliveries honest.
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Strategy
- —GraphQL through a BFF so each screen asked for exactly the data it rendered.
- —React component composition kept small and predictable, to stay reviewable by others.
- —Clear contracts over clever abstractions — the cheapest thing to hand over.
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Solution
- —React front-end for the global sales platform.
- —Node.js BFF with GraphQL consolidating back-end services for the interface.
- —Components structured for handover between people and markets.
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Impact
- Front-end delivered for a platform operating across international markets.
- A single GraphQL contract replacing direct coupling to multiple services.
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Learnings
Two clients at once teaches you fast which of your habits actually scale. Explicit contracts survived the context switching; cleverness did not.