Birdsnest 

www.birdsnest.com.au


Birdsnest is an online womens’ clothing retailer with a big heart, based in Cooma, NSW, Australia. Birdsnest has built their business from the ground up; including managing their tech stack in-house.

I was part of a team of three developers working alongside the Birdsnest team to build out their newly designed catalogue pages for their existing public website. In this project I focused on writing new and improving legacy JavaScript and CSS, but I also undertook a good portion of back-end work to implement sorting and filtering features. Additionally, I spent time analysing and understanding the performance profile of the front-end and using this to help improve the mobile experience of the website.

Toolbox

The Birdsnest website is a long-running Ruby on Rails application, with all the challenges that come along with a legacy codebase. In the front-end I made sure to use modern JavaScript patterns to decouple the state of interface interactions from the DOM, using a similar approach to the Viewloader library.