VeloVerde

VeloVerde is a full-stack hospitality platform built specifically for a beer garden. It combines a modern customer-facing website with an administration system that allows staff to manage the business without needing technical knowledge.

🌿 Customer-facing features

Visitors can:

• View the homepage
• Learn about the beer garden
• Browse the food & drink menu
• See upcoming events
• View the gallery
• Contact the business
• Find directions and opening hours

The original frontend was built using:

• React
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS

with pages such as:

• Home
• About
• Menu
• Events
• Contact

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⚙️ Administration Platform

Behind the scenes is a complete backend that manages the content.

Features include:

• 🍔 Menu management
  • Categories
  • Subcategories
  • Menu items
• 🎉 Event management
  • Create/edit events
  • Upload event images
• 🖼 Gallery management
• ✉ Contact messages
  • Receive customer inquiries
  • Reply to messages
• 👤 Admin authentication
  • Secure login using JWT
  • Admin panel
• 📁 Image uploads
  • Multer upload handling
  • Images stored in public/images

Originally the backend was built with:

• Express.js
• SQLite
• REST API (/api/...)

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📧 Email Integration

Later, we also expanded the project to include:

• Resend for email delivery
• Premium branded email templates
• Supabase Auth email templates for account confirmation, password resets, and authentication flows, styled to match the VeloVerde brand with a green, cream, and gold color palette.

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What kind of project is it?

I'd describe it as:

VeloVerde is a full-stack digital hospitality platform that combines a modern restaurant website with a powerful content and business management system. It enables staff to manage menus, events, galleries, customer messages, and website content through an intuitive admin interface while providing guests with a seamless online experience.

In software terms, it's a:

• ✅ Full-stack web application
• ✅ Restaurant / Beer Garden Management Platform
• ✅ CMS (Content Management System)
• ✅ Event Management System
• ✅ Digital Hospitality Platform
• ✅ Business Website with Admin Dashboard

It's the kind of project that demonstrates both frontend and backend development skills, integrating user experience, authentication, content management, file uploads, and business operations into a single solution. 🍻🌿