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Haider Ahmed Khan
A bilingual English and Bengali website for an author, with its own admin so books, talks and journal posts can be updated without a developer.
- Type
- Author website
- Company
- AlgoVerse LTD, client project
- Role
- Full-stack developer: design, frontend, API and admin
- Stack
- Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, GSAP, Express, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Cloudinary, Vitest
The brief
Readers come to the site from social posts, talk-show appearances, Rokomari bookshop listings and search. They should leave knowing the author's voice, and either buy the latest book, watch an interview or subscribe.
The audience reads English and Bengali, and after launch the content is kept up to date by the author, not by a developer.
What I built
- The public site: home, books and book pages, talks, journal and posts, about, and search.
- An admin for books, talks, posts, the author profile, site settings and newsletter subscribers, with CSV export.
- An API with public, sign-in and admin routes, image uploads and input validation.
- Per-page metadata, a sitemap, robots.txt and structured data for every public page.
Key decisions
Two languages side by side
Instead of a language switch, English and Bengali sit together, set in Anek Latin, Anek Bangla and Tiro Bangla so both scripts feel like one design.
Tests that never touch real data
The API tests run against an in-memory PostgreSQL database, so they can run anywhere without touching real content.
