Problem
Railmaster’s legacy application faced multiple challenges:
- Performance issues and frequent UI bugs that hindered usability.
- Complex, poorly structured code that did not follow React conventions, making maintenance difficult.
- Outdated UI that visually needed a refresh.
- The ‘Send to Jade’ system, critical for tracking inventory arriving at the port, regularly failed to submit information correctly, creating duplicated data and extra work for teams.
Solution
To address these challenges, we led a complete rewrite of the legacy app using modern React best practices:
- Full React rewrite: Engineered the majority of application, implementing the latest technology and architectural best practices.
- Mentorship: Guided team members on the new tech stack, helping simplify complex code, improve maintainability, and accelerate development.
- Workflow remediation: Re-engineered the critical ‘Send to Jade’ process, ensuring accurate and reliable inventory submissions.
- Rapid delivery: The entire project was completed within a month, demonstrating efficiency and focus.
Results
- High-performance modern system: The new React application is fast, stable, and visually refreshed.
- Workflow reliability: ‘Send to Jade’ issues were fully resolved, eliminating duplicate data and extra work.
- Improved team capability: Mentorship accelerated development, reduced bugs, and increased code quality.
- Overall success: Railmaster now has a maintainable, scalable, and user-friendly system that meets current and future business needs.
This project showcases how a strategic rewrite, workflow remediation, and mentorship can turn a struggling legacy application into a modern, reliable, and high-performing system.