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A rich front end where it earns its cost.
React is the right tool for interfaces with real client-side complexity: editors, builders, canvases, live dashboards and anything collaborative. Next.js adds routing and per-route rendering, so a single application can serve static marketing pages, server-rendered application pages and fully client-side tools without compromising any of them.
We build with both, and we are deliberate about where. Shipping a large JavaScript bundle to render a list and a form is a real cost paid by every visitor on every load, and it is paid most heavily by people on mid-range phones and poor connections.
So the decision is made per section rather than per project: rich client where the product needs it, server-rendered where it does not.
The problem
The common failure is adopting a client-side framework as the default and then paying for it everywhere. Slow first paint, a bundle that grows with every feature, duplicated validation between client and server, and a permanent maintenance obligation to an ecosystem that moves quickly.
The opposite failure is real too: building a genuinely interactive tool out of full-page requests, producing something that technically works and feels broken to use.
Client-side by default
A large bundle shipped to render pages the server could have sent complete.
Validation written twice
Client and server rules drift apart, so the two disagree about what is valid.
Rendering strategy by accident
Nobody decided whether a route is static or dynamic, so caching behaves unpredictably.
Bundle growth unmonitored
Every feature adds weight and nobody notices until the site is slow on real devices.
Our approach
We start by identifying which parts of the product actually hold state in the browser. That is usually a minority of the screens, and it is where React belongs. The rest — content, listings, forms, settings — is faster and simpler server-rendered.
Where Next.js is used, rendering strategy is chosen per route explicitly and written down, because the difference between static, server-rendered and client-rendered is invisible in the code and very visible in the behaviour.
Everything is TypeScript, validation rules are shared between client and server rather than written twice, and bundle size is treated as a budget with a number rather than as something to look at later.
Capabilities
React application architecture and state management
Next.js server rendering and static generation
Design system and component library development
API integration and data-fetching strategy
Bundle analysis and load-time optimisation
Component and end-to-end testing
Outcomes
Rich client only where needed
The interactive parts get React; the rest stays fast and simple.
One set of validation rules
Shared between client and server so they cannot disagree.
Rendering decided per route
Static, server-rendered or client-side chosen deliberately and documented.
A performance budget
Bundle size measured against a number, on mid-range hardware rather than a developer machine.
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Common questions about react & next.js development.
Usually fewer than expected. Getting that boundary right is most of the performance work.
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