End-to-end Development of a Live Auction Website

The client approached Capital Numbers to build this website from scratch and deploy it on the go-live. Having created many complex websites from scratch earlier, Capital Numbers knew the various challenges this web development project could entail. But, the most critical challenge we needed to address was to prepare the website for 500+ hi-res image uploads. We had to ensure users didn’t lose precious pixels during image uploads.

Time was vital. We had to take care of everything within eight months. However, the client had deep faith in us. He trusted our work and let us choose the whole tech stack, which included the following:

We built the backend using Laravel because Laravel has excellent user authentication support - which is crucial for onboarding new sellers into the website. Laravel also helps with chunked media uploads, which involves breaking large images into small pieces and then gluing them together on the server side. Because of such reasons, we chose Laravel as the primary backend framework.

As for the website's frontend, we used jQuery as it works with multiple browsers. jQuery is also lightweight and needs fewer lines of code to develop the frontend.

Although we used Laravel and jQuery, we used Node.js and Vue in the comment section’s backend and frontend, respectively, as these techs support real-time communications.

Throughout the cycle, Capital Numbers ensured consistency between staging and production under the expert guidance of its Project Manager, Laravel developers, and Vue.js engineers. As a result of this team effort, we could successfully achieve the following:

Powerful Online Bidding Website
Numerous Registrations
Unlimited Image Uploads
Lag-free Downloads
Interactive Comment Sections
Detailed Bidding Sections
Reserve Auctions
No-reserve Auctions
Two-minute Bidding Window
Timer-Progress Bar Synchronizations
Accurate Currency Conversions
Quick Transactions
Correct Distance Calculations
Live Online Auctions