Modern, CMS-Integrated Website for Toki Studio

Toki Studio needed a website that could keep pace with their high-caliber design work — visually engaging, easily manageable, and technically robust. Their previous platform lacked CMS capabilities, requiring manual content updates that slowed down publishing. They also lacked backend APIs to support contact form submissions or structured blog/case study management. From a performance standpoint, the older site was bloated with unnecessary scripts and offered poor mobile responsiveness, which hurt SEO and user engagement. Additionally, they needed a system that could scale with their expanding content portfolio while maintaining a...

We built a fully custom website using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) combined with Sanity.io as the headless CMS. The frontend was engineered with reusable shadcn UI components and MagicUI to enable immersive transitions, animations, and design flourishes without sacrificing performance. We reduced processing time by 65% through route-level code splitting, component-level lazy loading, and optimized state management. MongoDB was used to persist structured data like blog entries, case studies, and contact form submissions. SEO optimization techniques — including meta tag control, OpenGraph integration, and semantic markup — improved search visibility. The CMS...We began by conducting a UX audit and aligning the design and development workflow with Toki Studio’s creative direction. We built a component-driven frontend using React, enhanced with animation libraries like MagicUI and shadcn for a polished, smooth experience. Sanity.io CMS was set up and customized to model Toki’s content needs — including blogs, portfolios, team bios, and case studies. We implemented RESTful Express routes for both frontend consumption and...