Proposal Generator
An internal admin platform for creating, managing and exporting client proposals as PDFs.
- Role
- Frontend Engineering · Dashboard
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Product
Proposal Generator is an internal admin tool built to simplify how the team created and managed client proposals — a business workflow application rather than a marketing site.
An admin platform where team members build structured proposals through forms, manage them in a dashboard, and export them as polished PDFs for clients.
Context
Professional Experience · Cemtrexlabs
My Role
- Built the responsive admin dashboard and its form UI in Next.js
- Held multi-step proposal state in Redux so a long form stayed predictable and recoverable between steps
- Integrated the dashboard with the Laravel and MySQL backend over Axios and Fetch, covering submission and file-upload flows
- Implemented error handling across the proposal workflow
- Built PDF proposal generation with react-pdf, driven by the same data model the dashboard used
- Reviewed teammates' code and kept the code, API and deployment documentation current
- Maintained the tool after launch through bug fixes, performance work and new features
Challenge
Proposal creation was a manual, inconsistent process. The tool needed to turn structured form input into consistent, professional PDF output while staying easy to use for non-technical team members.
- Keeping complex, multi-step form state predictable and recoverable
- Generating consistent, well-formatted PDFs from dynamic form data
- Coordinating a Next.js frontend against a separate Laravel backend cleanly
Approach
- Used Redux to centralize form and proposal state so the multi-step flow stayed consistent and debuggable.
Engineering
- Built reusable form components with validation and file-upload support
- Implemented react-pdf templates driven by the same data model used in the dashboard
- Focused on responsiveness and reliability of the dashboard over heavier optimization work, given its internal-tool nature
Outcome
Proposal Generator shipped as an internal tool the team used to standardize proposal creation and output.
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