Engineering at Car & Classic

Stories from a twenty-year-old Laravel marketplace: fewer calls, lighter pages, photos that load only when you want them, and inputs the whole company uses.

4 parts · ongoing

  1. 01Form inputs for a whole company: one component per field, built on composablesarticle · 8 min
  2. 024,000 photos that load only when you want them: a virtual carousel in Vuearticle · 8 min
  3. 03What the homepage renders first: 125 KB to 43 KBarticle · 4 min
  4. 04One call instead of N: 90% fewer search requestsarticle · 6 min