In productionIndependent project2026

PIBLS Website

Website and admin panel for Primeira Igreja Batista em Lagoa Santa, which replaced the WordPress site without raising hosting costs.

My role: Only developer: architecture, backend, frontend and operations.
Technologies: Laravel 13 · PHP 8.4 · React 19 · TypeScript · MySQL · Playwright · Spec Kit · Claude Code

The problem

The church needed to replace its WordPress site with its own website, with a panel for the team to update content, without spending more than the shared hosting it already pays for.

What I delivered

A pre-rendered public site, with a 160 KB per-page JavaScript limit checked on every build.
An admin panel with role-based permissions, events, ministries, content and visitor requests.
Versioned deployments on shared hosting, with no Node on the server.
Encrypted backups and operating guides so one person can keep the system running.

Technical decisions

No Node in production

Shared hosting does not run Node. React is pre-rendered in CI, and the server only delivers files and the PHP API.

Trade-off: dynamic data depends on API calls from the browser.

Lean operations, recorded in an ADR

I kept only the alerts one person can actually follow: an off-site backup copy, one monitor and two checks.

Trade-off: less visibility until the website’s usage grows.

Outcome