Engineering

Next.js Development

Production Next.js applications that balance performance, editorial velocity, commerce complexity, and operational clarity.

Phase
4-step engagement
Hypercare
30 days included
Cadence
Weekly demos

Trusted by teams shipping at scale

Drybar
Cuisinart
Conair
Revlon
Belkin
Beautiful
CruxGG
Joshua Tree Coffee
Mary's Gone Crackers
AMI Clubwear
Revitalash
Soil3
Capabilities

What we deliver

Every Next.js Development engagement bundles these capabilities by default. We tune the depth of each to fit your scope.

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Next.js application architecture and development

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Server-rendered and statically generated experiences

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Headless CMS and commerce integrations

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Caching, revalidation, and edge delivery strategy

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Authentication, APIs, and backend-for-frontend layers

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Migration, performance, testing, and observability

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Engagement

How we build Next.js Development

A repeatable four-phase engagement. Same rigor every time, scoped to the work in front of us.

Phase 01
Week 1-2

Discover

We map the current state, surface constraints, and lock the scope before any code is written. You leave the phase with a written success definition.

  • Audit document
  • Success criteria
  • Risk register
Phase 02
Week 2-3

Architect

We pick the stack, design the data model, and prove the riskiest path first. Architecture decisions are reviewed with your team before build starts.

  • Architecture doc
  • Stack decision record
  • Spike on riskiest path
Phase 03
Week 3-10

Build

Iterative delivery in weekly increments. You see working software every Friday, can redirect priorities each Monday, and never wait six weeks for a demo.

  • Weekly demo cadence
  • Production-ready code
  • CI/CD + tests
Phase 04
Week 10+

Operate

We ship with observability, hand off runbooks, and stay accountable post-launch. 30-day hypercare is included on every engagement.

  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Operational runbooks
  • 30-day hypercare
Deep dive

The full breakdown

Architecture, decisions, and the operational details behind every Next.js Development engagement. Skim with the table of contents, or read straight through.

nextjs-development.brief.md

Next.js for Real Production Constraints

Next.js provides a broad set of rendering and application primitives. The important work is deciding where each belongs. We design route, data, cache, and deployment boundaries around the product rather than applying one rendering mode everywhere.

Rendering and Data Architecture

Pages with different business requirements should behave differently. Editorial pages, product detail routes, account areas, search results, and dashboards each have distinct freshness, personalization, and latency needs.

We document those needs and select server rendering, pre-rendering, streaming, client interaction, and cache behavior route by route.

Headless Content and Commerce

We connect Next.js to content and commerce systems with typed clients and explicit ownership boundaries. Draft preview lets editors validate changes, while webhook-driven invalidation updates the affected experiences without flushing every cache or rebuilding the entire site.

For commerce, pricing, availability, cart, account, and checkout flows remain connected to their authoritative platform.

Application Engineering

Authenticated products need more than pages. We build authorization, backend-for-frontend APIs, forms, background work, file handling, search, analytics, and error recovery as coherent application systems.

Shared types and validation keep contracts aligned between the browser, server, and external APIs.

Performance and Operations

Performance budgets, image and font delivery, bundle analysis, caching, observability, automated tests, and deployment checks are part of the build. Teams receive a clear runbook for releases, incidents, content updates, and ongoing maintenance.

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Scope

Included in every engagement

scope_of_work.md
6 items
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    Production-ready Next.js application

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    Documented rendering and data architecture

  3. 03

    CMS preview and publishing workflow

  4. 04

    Automated test and deployment pipelines

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    Performance and accessibility validation

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    Monitoring, runbooks, and team handoff

Stack

Technology

The tools and platforms we deploy on every Next.js Development engagement.

stack.json
Frameworks 3
Next.jsReactTailwind CSS
Languages 2
TypeScriptGraphQL
Tooling 2
Node.jsStrapi
Commerce 3
SanityContentfulShopify
Data 1
PostgreSQL
Infrastructure 2
VercelCloudflare
Testing 1
Playwright
Observability 1
Sentry
CI/CD 1
GitHub Actions
FAQ

Common questions

Everything you need to know before starting a project with us.

We build headless commerce storefronts, editorial sites, authenticated customer portals, SaaS products, and internal applications. The architecture is selected around the product's data, rendering, publishing, and operational requirements.

Yes. We inventory routes, data dependencies, browser-only code, SEO requirements, and deployment constraints, then move the application in stages with parity tests and measurable performance targets.

No. Vercel is a strong option, but we also deploy to other supported cloud and edge environments. Hosting is chosen according to runtime needs, traffic profile, compliance, team operations, and cost.

Yes. We integrate platforms such as Sanity, Contentful, Strapi, WordPress, Shopify, BigCommerce, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud, with draft preview, webhook-driven updates, caching, and observability.

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