Shipping Bloom After: My Week 4 Wrap-Up

By Chijioke Uzodinma | Backend Lead, Bloom After In my previous articles, I walked through our journey from planning the system in Week 1, to building the backend in Week 2, and stabilizing and connecting everything in Week 3. Week 4 was the final stretch. This week was focused on finishing the product, fixing critical issues, and making sure everything works smoothly across all pages. What I Shipped This Week As Backend Lead, my focus this week was on refining the system and resolving issues that affected the overall user experience. Here are the key things I finalized: Completed the admin dashboard, ensuring all core actions work properly Fixed multiple frontend integration and UI bugs Resolved a major routing issue on the frontend Ensured all features were fully connected and working end-to-end By the end of the week, the platform moved from “almost ready” to fully functional. Fixing a Major Routing Issue (Frontend) One of the biggest problems we faced this week was with routing on