BCITO
- Wagtail
- Django
- Next.js
- Django Ninja
- Pydantic
- Celery
Overview
Headless Wagtail and Next.js website for BCITO, New Zealand's leading building and construction apprenticeship provider. At Octave I supported the site and set up headless-waf-builder, a separate open source package that brings Octave's wagtail-advanced-form-builder to headless sites through a REST API.
Key Features
Headless forms as a package
headless-waf-builder is a standalone open source package on PyPI that gives the original Wagtail Advanced Form Builder a REST API for React, Vue, Angular and mobile frontends.
Form schema and submission API
Built on Django Ninja, the API returns a form's fields and validation rules, then validates and processes submissions, with auto-generated OpenAPI docs.
Conditional logic carried over
Show and hide rules from the CMS are exposed in the schema, so the frontend can drive multi-step forms like the BCITO apprenticeship sign-up.
Secure by default
CSRF protection, optional reCAPTCHA v2/v3 and rate limiting, with email notifications sent in the background through Celery.
Ongoing site support
Maintenance and fixes on the live BCITO site, a Wagtail CMS feeding a Next.js frontend.
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