Building with Care: My Week 1 Setup for Bloom After

By Grace Olabode | Engineering Lead, Bloom After Writing code is usually about solving business problems. But sometimes, you get to build something that feels like a warm hug for someone going through a tough time. For the International Women’s Day (IWD) Sprint with the Tabi Project and TEE Foundation, our team is building Bloom After. It’s a website designed to safely support Nigerian mothers dealing with Postpartum Depression (PPD). As the Engineering Lead for this project, my job for Week 1 (our setup week) was to build a strong foundation. I needed to make sure our coding workspace was set up so that the final website would be fast, safe, and incredibly easy to use. Here is a look at how we started. Keeping it Fast and Simple When a mother is tired, stressed, or overwhelmed, the last thing she needs is a slow, frustrating website. We had a strict rule from the start: the site must load in under 3 seconds on a mobile phone. To make this happen, we kept our tools very simple. Instead