Nov 2024・still working・76 views
Arenaways: website, app and live train times
Frontend・
Backend
Technologies:
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Shadcn UI
Typescript
Zod
RFI
Turnit Ride
JWT
MDX Editor
Node.js
React.js
MongoDB
Express.js
Mongoose
Expo
React Native
Case study
- My role
- I built the public website, the API, the back office and the mobile app.
- Duration
- Started in November 2024
The problem
Arenaways, the first private railway company in Italy, wanted a website with booking and live train information, then an app with the same features. The data comes from the RFI API, which is slow to respond: the website and the app cannot sit blank while they wait.
What I did and why
- A backend between the site and RFI: calls to RFI go through the Express API, with timeouts, Zod validation, structured logs and a light cache for repeated searches.
- Page first, data as soon as it is ready: Server Components and Suspense show the page structure while the times arrive.
- Booking with Turnit Ride: the website and the app hand origin, destination, date and passengers to Turnit's sales system instead of rebuilding a booking engine.
- Mobile app for iOS and Android: Expo and React Native, published on the app stores, with ticket search, live times, travel updates and push notifications, on the same content as the back office.
- Back office for the client: news, offers and information blocks with an MDX editor.
Results
- 4 partswebsite, app, API and back office, built and connected by me
- Livetrain times and status from RFI, with timeouts and cache
- Turnit Ridebooking integrated without a sales engine to maintain
Stack highlights
- Next.js
- Node.js + Express
- MongoDB
- Zod
- Expo
- React Native
- RFI API
- Turnit Ride
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Get in touchVisitors on the website or in the app book their trip, look up a train by number or by route and see its live status. The Arenaways team publishes news, offers and notices from the back office without going through a developer, and the same content reaches both the website and the app.
What I bring to an agency or a small business from this project
- Integrations with slow external APIs, handled so the website and the app stay usable while they wait.
- An existing booking system integrated into the website and the app, instead of one rebuilt from scratch.
- Website, app, API and back office built together by one person.
Realized for Arenaways in collaboration with DVC Consulting
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