Austin Opia | Senior Laravel Engineer & Technical Lead

Overview

About the project

Delivered four mission-critical enhancements to the Chipper social feed: post creation, following authors, bookmarking content, and time-based polling. Each feature respected existing API conventions, added resilient Pinia stores, and improved retention by surfacing fresh content without reloads.

Engineering

Challenges & solutions

Challenges

01Legacy views mocked API responses instead of wiring real mutations
02Favorites were not persisted across sessions leading to confused users
03Polling the feed risked duplicate entries and race conditions

Solutions

01Wired PostForm to the REST layer with optimistic updates and validation states
02Centralized favorite users/posts in Pinia with hydration from server payloads
03Added 30-second polling with diffing logic plus a `Load New Posts` CTA to merge updates safely

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Chipper Social App Enhancements

About the project

Challenges & solutions