Case study
The one project you can actually use.
Julia Mendes — a production storefront for Brazilian artisanal handbags. Everything below is something you can click through yourself, right now, on the live site.
Why this one
Three of the projects on this site are best understood by reading about them — a CRM you'd need a login to explore, an internal agency platform, an audit pipeline that runs off-screen. This one is different: it's a real storefront a recruiter or client can browse, add to a cart, and walk through checkout, without asking me for access. People trust what they can test more than what they're told.
What's built
Full catalog and cart, Stripe-backed checkout, an admin dashboard for order and inventory management, and a Cloudinary media pipeline for product photography. Built on Next.js, TypeScript and Supabase. The last full CI run (27/07/2026) recorded 5,403 tests passing of 5,495 total, with 92 skipped and none failing — the figures are read off that run's own log, not a local test artifact.
Categories span Acrylic & Resin, Top Handle, Statement, Palha/Natural, Mini, Clutches and Crossbody — a real product catalog, not a two-item demo.
Measured, not claimed
An earlier draft of this page cited a specific Lighthouse score (65 · LCP 6.1s · CLS 0) as "measured." On re-check, no saved Lighthouse report exists anywhere in the repository to back that up — it isn't contradicted, it's just not evidenced, so it's withdrawn rather than repeated. If a fresh score is wanted here, it needs to be re-run and the report saved alongside this page.
One thing this case study won't do: invent a business outcome. A specific growth figure was mentioned informally by the client but never confirmed against a source or a time period, and I don't have permission to cite the client's name or likeness beyond the brand itself — so it isn't here. What's above is everything I can stand behind: the brand, the build, and numbers traceable to the repository itself.
See it yourself
Ten minutes on the live site will tell you more than another paragraph would.
Visit juliamendes.co.uk →