Stockhouse - modern and secure warehouse management

PWA to add, update and delete items for a warehouse. The web app supports offline use-cases and can show thousands of products fast and reliable. Based on Firestore as the database, the frontend uses a reactive update-architecture.

What if one of Eastern Austria's largest traders of medical equipment asked you to create a completely new application to manage his company's whole warehouse, incl. processing sales with region-based taxation and automatic invoice as well as delivery note creation? As a modern, progressive web app using the latest in realtime synced database technolgy? Would you say no? Of course not!

First things first, we summoned the mighty gods of the cloud and asked them in typical, professional fashion at a full moon midnight gathering what technolgy we best should use. Firebase, they answered, and Firebase it was!

Switching back to serious mode ©, we took a look at what backend architecture we should implement. It was clear from the get-go to develop a PWA (progressive web app), driven by React for the DOM-manipulations, to enable the best performance modern web has to offer.

To build a reliable backend, we chose the Firebase-SDK: it offers every feature required for this project (fast & scalable NoSQL DB, auth, storage for files, hosting & analytics) and is really well build UI-wise. By using Firestore, we got a synced DB in realtime as well. 

After an initial definition of requirements, the service was being develop over a time of about two months. After first test runs, the RMT frontend and backend were deployed for production and used during the day-to-day tasks managing a warehouse.

In the months following, feedback from staff was implemented to further optimize certain UI-elements and navigation flows as well as refining the lazy list implementation for managing the warehouse's products.

React was used for rendering a PWA. As always we used Typescript as the programming language. Using the Firebase SDK allowed us to quickly bootstrap common backend features - we're building on the shoulders of giants, and Google has done an excellent job with Firebase.

RMT warehouse management

Personal warehouse management for one of Eastern Austria's largest medical equipment traders.

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