Shaam.org was built as a lean, lightning-fast content platform to serve up breaking news, in-depth reports, memorial entries, and multimedia—all powered by a Node.js/Express core and MongoDB under the hood. I designed flexible schemas that model articles, categories, and videos, and tuned indexes so editors can publish new stories instantly without any downtime. On the API side, Express routes expose everything—pagination, tag/category filters, full-text searches via Mongo’s aggregation framework. Automated backups keep the data safe and snappy.
For the user-facing bits, I leaned into server-rendered pages for SEO and shareability: each article comes wrapped in the right meta tags and Open Graph data so social-shares look great out of the box. Templates dynamically generate list and detail views for news، reports، and videos, with lazy-loaded images and paginated archives to save mobile users’ bandwidth. The admin panel—powered by the same Express/Mongo combo—lets non-technical staff publish new reports, embed YouTube clips without touching a line of code. And because simplicity is its own superpower on a news site, we kept the front end razor-sharp: minimal JS, strong SEO, and zero-downtime deploys so when a big story breaks, the site just keeps chugging along.