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DOCFLiX.site
Documentary Journalism Platform
Next.js 16ReactSanity CMSTailwind CSSGSAPTypeScriptVercel
docflixsite.site
The Challenge
A bilingual documentary journalism platform — English and Bengali — with heavy video embeds and real editorial workflows, that still had to load in under a second. Editors needed to publish without opening a ticket, and the design had to feel dark and cinematic to match the journalism.
The Solution
01Deployed Next.js 16 with App Router for server-side rendering and static generation — every article page is pre-built at deploy time, giving sub-100ms initial loads
02Integrated Sanity headless CMS with real-time collaboration so multiple editors can work simultaneously without conflicts
03Built a subdomain-based bilingual routing system (en.docflixsite.site / bn.docflixsite.site) so each language has clean canonical URLs
04Designed a dark cinematic UI with warm gold accents — letting video thumbnails and photography breathe without visual competition
05Implemented lazy-loaded video embeds, intersection-observer-driven image loading, and route-level code splitting to keep initial JS payload under 100KB
Key Decisions
D1Sanity over Strapi/Contentful — GROQ queries are more precise than GraphQL resolvers for fetching exactly what each page needs
D2Subdomain-based i18n instead of query params — cleaner SEO per language, avoids duplicate content issues
D3ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration) for new articles — editors publish content that goes live without a full redeploy
Results
01Consistent sub-2-second Largest Contentful Paint across all pages
02100 on Google Lighthouse performance (mobile and desktop)
03Bilingual content management without developer intervention
04Zero-downtime deploys via Vercel's edge network
05Article pages rank in top 5 for long-tail investigative journalism queries within weeks of publication
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The platform exceeded our expectations. The bilingual setup works flawlessly, our editors were publishing within hours of training, and the site speed is remarkable for a journalism platform with so much video content.
DET
DOCFLiX Editorial Team
Platform Client
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