The Spacecraft Design Panel where users edit design settings

Spacecraft

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Update: Spacecraft is now Marketing 360

Background

Spacecraft is a robust CMS that helps small to medium sized businesses easily create a maintain their websites. At the time of writing, you can throw a rock anywhere in downtown Austin, and it’ll hit a business that uses it.

Responsibilities

The team was small, so my responsibilities were wide-ranging in terms of Front End Development. My main duty was Product Developer, adding to and refining the web app’s WYSIWYG UI. I took part in spec-ing out and implementing new features, renovating the mobile navigation system (updating it with new options and adding lots of animations), creating a system for unit testing client side controls using Mocha, Chai, Karma, etc. I was also the point-of-contact for spec-ing out custom features for clients, where I worked closely with designers to quote and create what the client requested.

Tech Stack

Vanilla JS, jQuery, Handlebar, SCSS, Github, Mocha, Chai, BrowserStack, Browserify, Babel

Process

The beginning of any project usually starts with a conversation between either the CEO or CTO and myself. However I was also given a lot of freedom to investigate and advocate for important new features that should be added to the platform. From there I’d work in a local dev environment, hammer away at the UI, commit it to a staging evironment, and submit it for review.

Accomplishments