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Backlinks
- My role
- Sole developer: Next.js front-end and Strapi CMS
- Timeline
- 2024 · ~6 weeks
- Stack
- Next.js · React · Strapi · SCSS · ConvertKit
Brief
The team needed to publish pages and posts without a developer. I built the site in Next.js with a Strapi CMS of 24 reusable section types, from Figma to a finished build in about 6 weeks.
Backlinks offers link building and SEO services. The site has a blog, an examples page and an application form for prospective clients, all editable through the CMS.
What I did
I built the front-end in Next.js (App Router) and the back-end in Strapi. In Strapi I modelled the pages, 24 reusable section components and a blog with posts, authors and categories. On the front-end, a section renderer turns the API response into pages, and I flattened Strapi's nested response format so components get plain data.
I also built the blog (pagination, category filters, related posts, sharing, a contents list from headings), SEO fields per page, and the apply form with validation and ConvertKit submission.
Highlights
CMS-driven page sections
Pages are lists of typed Strapi components, and one renderer maps each to a React section, so editors rearrange pages without code.
Blog with article tooling
Categories, authors, pagination, related posts, share links and an auto-built table of contents.
Validated apply form
Custom inputs, client-side validation and submission of leads to ConvertKit.
Outcome
- Section types in the CMS
- 24
- CMS content types
- 9
- Figma to finished build
- ~6 wk