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Next.js Development

Building marketing sites and web applications on Next.js and TypeScript, with a component system your developers can extend without us. The measure of the work is not launch day; it is whether adding a page six months later is an afternoon or a ticket.

What you get

  • A typed component system

    Composable sections with real prop contracts, so a new page is assembled from pieces that already work rather than copied from the nearest existing file and edited until it looks right.

  • Content as structured data

    Copy lives in typed modules rather than inline in markup, which means a wording change does not require reading JSX and a missing field is a build error rather than an empty space on the live site.

  • Rendering decisions made deliberately

    Static, server-rendered and client components chosen per route for a stated reason. The default of making everything a client component is what turns a fast framework into a slow site.

  • Metadata, sitemap and structured data generated

    Canonicals, Open Graph cards, sitemap entries and JSON-LD derived from the content rather than hand-maintained, so a new page cannot ship missing them.

  • A handover that is actually usable

    Documented conventions, the reasoning behind the non-obvious decisions, and a walkthrough with the people who will maintain it. A repository nobody can navigate is a rewrite scheduled for later.

How it runs

  1. 01

    Model the content

    Before any interface work, we establish what the site is actually made of — which entities exist, which fields they carry, how they relate. Layout follows structure far more easily than structure follows layout.

    You provide: Existing copy, brand assets and a view on what must be editable

    We produce: A typed content model

  2. 02

    Build the system

    The design system and section components come first, then pages compose them. This is what stops the twentieth page from being a bespoke file that shares nothing with the other nineteen.

    We produce: Component library · Design tokens

  3. 03

    Assemble and review

    Pages are built from the system and reviewed on real devices rather than in a design tool, with performance and accessibility checked as the work lands instead of at the end.

    We produce: Assembled routes · Review notes per page

  4. 04

    Hand over

    Deployment, environment configuration and a walkthrough with your team, plus written conventions so the next person to touch it inherits the reasoning rather than guessing at it.

    We produce: Deployed site · Conventions documentation · Handover session

Where this stops

  • Not a CMS integration by default. If your team needs to edit copy without a developer, that is a real requirement with real cost, and it changes the architecture — so it is a decision to make at the start rather than a feature to bolt on.
  • Not ongoing content production. We build the system and the initial pages; writing the next thirty pages of copy is not something we take on.
  • Not brand or identity design. We can work to an existing brand, or to a designer you bring, but inventing a visual identity is a different engagement with different people.
  • Not a guarantee of search rankings. We can build the technical foundation that makes ranking possible; nobody can sell you the ranking itself, and anyone who does is selling something else.

FAQ

Next.js Development questions we hear often

Why Next.js rather than WordPress or a site builder?

For a brochure site that will never change shape, a builder is often the right answer and we will say so. Next.js earns its cost when the site has structure worth modelling, needs to stay fast under real content, or has to integrate with something. The trade is a codebase that needs a developer to change, which is a genuine downside if you do not have one.

Can our team maintain this after handover?

That is the point, and it is a design constraint rather than a hope. The component system, the typed content modules and the documented conventions all exist so that a developer who was not involved can add a page without reverse-engineering anything. If your team has no front-end developer at all, say so early — it changes what we should build.

How long does a marketing site take?

The build is rarely the long pole. Content modelling and getting the copy written are, and both are largely on your side. A site with the copy ready moves quickly; a site where the copy is still being decided takes as long as that decision does, and no amount of engineering shortens it.

Do you work with an existing codebase?

Yes, though we will be direct about what we find. Sometimes the right recommendation is a targeted improvement to what exists; sometimes the existing code is the reason every change is expensive and the honest answer is to say so rather than to keep billing against it.

Contact

Have a project in mind?

Tell us what you are building — or what keeps breaking. You will get a considered reply from an engineer, not an autoresponder.