Ring Leader App

Wedding planner app, vendor marketplace + real-time bride/vendor messaging.

Role: Frontend
Year: 2023
Category: Mobile
Stack: React NativeRedux ToolkitSocket.ioJavaScriptiOSAndroid

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01 · Outcomes

What the build actually shipped.

Numbers, not adjectives. The stats below are pulled from production. Anything still live, still measured.

2023

shipped

live, App Store + Play Store

Cross-platform

iOS + Android

shared business logic

Real-time

bride ↔ vendor chat

shared timeline, same threads

End-to-end

frontend scope

from spec to store review

02 · Overview

What it does.

Wedding planning is a logistics problem disguised as a romantic one. Ring Leader treats it that way. Venue, catering, music, decor, guest list, seating, all in one app. Real-time chat with vendors on a shared timeline so the bride and the florist aren't in two different conversations on two different apps.

03 · Gallery

How it looks.

Mockups of the finished product. Click any shot to open it full-size.

04 · Decisions

The choices that shaped the build.

Tech is downstream of decisions. These are the calls made early enough to compound the right way. The ones a code review six months later still agrees with.

React Native over native pair

Cross-platform with shared business logic. Same brain, two surfaces. iOS + Android shipping from a single codebase, faster iteration, no dual-team coordination tax on every feature.

Socket.IO for bride ↔ vendor chat

Bride and vendor on the same thread, same timeline. Polling would have left messages stale up to the refresh interval; sockets keep both sides honest at sub-second latency, which is the whole point.

Redux Toolkit as shared state contract

Cart, plans, threads, timelines — all shared between bride app and vendor portal. Same store shape on both surfaces, so a state change in one renders cleanly in the other without divergent reducers.

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