Cakeshop E-Commerce
A modern e-commerce platform tailored for bakeries and pastry shops, with beautiful product showcases and seamless ordering.
Key Engineering Achievements
The engineering decisions and challenges behind this project
Persistent Cart with Redis
Maintaining cart state across sessions without losing items when users close the browser.
Implemented Redis-backed cart sessions that persist user selections with TTL-based expiry. Cart syncs across devices when logged in.
Zero cart abandonment from session loss; improved conversion rate for returning visitors.
Visual Product Showcase
Bakery products are highly visual — standard product cards don't do them justice.
Built a rich product gallery with multi-image support, zoom on hover, and category-based filtering with smooth animations.
Visually engaging storefront that showcases products the way a physical bakery would.
Streamlined Checkout Flow
Reducing friction in the ordering process for a local bakery business.
Designed a 5-step checkout flow with address auto-fill, delivery scheduling, and integrated payment processing with order confirmation emails.
Complete order placement in under 2 minutes for returning customers.
Project Analytics
A data-driven look at the project's architecture and performance
Feature Priority (Dev Hours)
Architecture Split
Developer's Note
“The Cakeshop project taught me that e-commerce for visual products needs a fundamentally different approach than generic stores. Investing in the image gallery and product presentation paid off more than any backend optimization.”