Context
Buying, renting and selling, off-plan projects, an agent directory and the company’s own journal. All of it is on one public site.
Real-estate platform · 2022-2024
AX Capital
AX Capital works in the Dubai real-estate market. From 2022 to 2024 I led the front-end team there and built the public platform from scratch by myself: a site with property search, a custom CMS on Quasar and a 3D apartment viewer on Three.js right in the browser.
What I built
Three parts. The public site on Nuxt: search across the primary and secondary markets and new developments, filters by type, number of bedrooms and price in AED, USD, EUR, GBP or CNY, properties on a map, agent pages, catalogs, AX Journal and request forms. A custom CMS on Quasar with an Editor.js editor, where all the site content is managed. And a 3D viewer on Three.js, so a buyer can see the apartment in 3D right in the browser.
Architecture
Nuxt for the site, Quasar for the admin panel, Three.js for the viewer. A listings site lives on search traffic, so pages have to render fast and get indexed. The CMS is a separate app, so editors don’t touch the public front end. The 3D viewer loads only where it is needed. Editor.js outputs structured JSON instead of raw HTML.
Challenges
The site has two types of content: journal texts and property data that the filters work on. Texts fit well into Editor.js, but properties need typed fields for queries. So the block editor could not be the only content model.
Outcome
axcapital.ae went to production with all three parts. With SSR, Sharp image compression and a CDN on AWS, pages loaded about 40% faster. According to the client, performance went up by 50%.
Results
+50% performanceBuilt from scratchSite · CMS · 3D viewer
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