Victor DumeigeSab Fried Rice
A bought restaurant theme rebuilt from scratch — 58.8 MB down to 1.06 MB.
- Role
- Sole developer and designer
- Year
- 2025–2026
- Tools
- HTML, SCSS/Sass, Bootstrap 5 (CSS only), vanilla JavaScript, Handlebars partials, webpack 5, Python + Pillow, Render, Cloudflare, Google Analytics 4
The marketing site for Sab Fried Rice, a Thai and Lao restaurant in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It gives locals the menu, hours, address and ordering links, and gives Google the structured data it needs to show them correctly.
I took over a bought theme and rebuilt it. The homepage was shipping around 42 MB of camera-original photos and a 2.99 MB JavaScript vendor bundle. I wrote a Python/Pillow script that generates WebP derivatives, replaced mapbox-gl, FontAwesome, Bootstrap JS, Flickity, Isotope and Jarallax with about 3 KB of hand-written JavaScript, and put a webpack performance budget in the build so it cannot regress.
I also moved hours, address and order links into one JSON file so they stop drifting between pages, and redesigned the palette and type with every contrast pair measured.
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