We have rebuilt our site, and you didn't even notice

In preparation of the design upgrade we’re working on, a lot has already changed. Remember the blog post about experiments with GraphQL and React, back in May? Well, brace yourself, cause we’ve already rebuilt most of the news homepage and article pages with it.

The green shows parts that are already replaced. This means both the homepage and article pages are more easy to replace when the design upgrade is ready. Also, both the homepage and article page load significantly faster, and the load on our current content platform is greatly reduced.

The key takeaway here is that we use React components, small building blocks you can use to build a website. It is a more modern approach when compared to Joomla PHP layouts and templates, as it allows for more flexibility in how you build a page. Think of it as Lego blocks, where you can have a lot of different colors and sizes and piece them together any way you like. On top of that, it’s far more easy for us to use data from different systems (jobs, news, lookbook) on a single page.