Godrej Design Lab

Stack and Rationale

Stack

This project is built atop a JavaScript-centric stack, both for the frontend and the backend:

  • React: Powers the UI
  • React Router and Express: Facilitates routing on the frontend
  • Tailwind: A utility-based CSS framework
  • Strapi CMS (v5): A headless content management system
  • nodeJS: A JavaScript server-side runtime
  • pnpm: Manages dependencies and facilitates housing all the applications under a single project directory/repo
  • NGINX: An HTTP server and serves as a reverse-proxy to the nodeJS server

On the infrastructure side, the following services of AWS are leveraged:

  • EC2:
  • S3
  • CloudFront

Why?

At the time of writing, Godrej is already using the following for their current projects:

  • TypeScript, React, nodeJS, essentially a JavaScript-centric stack
  • Strapi, for content management
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), for hosting and infra needs

Using the above adds a level of consistency and reduces the barrier to onboarding new contributors to this project.