Developers who know React and Next.js past the tutorial stage.
Server components, edge rendering, performance budgets, and the parts of Next.js most teams get wrong, handled by people who've shipped it in production, not just read the docs.
What "knows React" means here
Depth, not a list of buzzwords.
Six calls we make on every React build. Open any one, each is a decision our developers make and can defend on a real codebase, not a line on a CV.
01 · App Router
Server components by default. Client components only where they earn it.
Data fetching stays on the server, slow parts stream in with Suspense, and a client component shows up only when there’s real interaction to hydrate.
02 · Rendering
SSR, SSG, or ISR, decided per route, on purpose.
Each route gets the mode its data actually needs. Freshness and traffic decide it, and the trade-off is written down, not left to whatever the default happens to be.
03 · State
The lightest state that works. Nothing heavier.
Local state stays local. Shared state uses Context or Zustand. Server data stays on the server. Redux shows up only when something genuinely global asks for it.
04 · Web Vitals
Performance budgets that block the merge.
LCP, INP, and CLS run as budgets in CI. A regression fails the build inside the pull request, not in an audit three months later.
05 · Types
One type, from the route handler to the JSX.
Types flow from the API through the data layer into the component. Rename a field and the build breaks at the call site, before a user ever hits it.
06 · Architecture
Components that don’t care which UI library you swap in.
UI components depend on your tokens, not on the library underneath. Swap the component library or restyle the system, and the app keeps working.
Ecosystem awareness
We track what actually changes in this stack.
Pick the situation you're in. These are the scenarios we get asked about most.
Next.js 14+ / App Router
We build App-Router-first: server components by default, server actions for mutations, streaming with Suspense boundaries, and route handlers replacing most old API routes. Just as important, we know when a route is better off client-rendered and won’t force RSC where it fights the product.
Migrating from Pages Router
We’ve moved teams off getServerSideProps route by route, not with a rewrite-from-scratch. pages/ and app/ coexist during the move, so you keep shipping features while the migration happens underneath.
Monorepo setups
Turborepo or Nx, shared UI and config packages, and CI that only rebuilds what changed. One pipeline, many apps, a marketing site, a dashboard, and a shared component library living in the same repo without stepping on each other.
Headless CMS
Sanity, Contentful, or a custom API layer, whichever fits the team editing the content. Typed content models, draft previews wired to the App Router, and ISR revalidation triggered by publish webhooks so editors see changes without a redeploy.
How hiring works
Four steps to a developer who's shipped this stack.
Tell us your stack and scope
React or Next version, App vs Pages, greenfield or existing repo, timeline.
We match a developer
Someone who's actually shipped your scenario, usually within 5 days.
Technical trial or pairing
A real ticket or a pairing session on your codebase, not a whiteboard puzzle.
Start shipping
They join your repo and workflow and commit in week one. Scale monthly.
Straight talk
We won’t put a developer on your project who learned React last month. If we don’t have the right fit available, we’ll tell you, and point you somewhere honest, instead of stretching someone thin across three codebases and hoping it works out.
FAQ
React and Next.js, specifically.
Either. Most of our React work is joining an existing repo, we read the code, match your conventions, and ship inside your existing patterns before proposing any changes. Greenfield is welcome too; we just won’t rebuild something that already works to scratch an architecture itch.
Yes. They work in your repo, your branching model, your CI, and your review process. Pull requests get reviewed by your team the same as anyone else’s, and you own the code from the first commit.
Yes, CRA to Vite or Next, Pages Router to App Router, and version upgrades across major Next releases. We do it incrementally wherever the codebase allows, so you keep shipping features during the move instead of freezing for a big-bang rewrite.
Both. If you already have an opinion, SSR everything, static export, ISR for a specific section, we build to it. If you don’t, we’ll recommend a strategy per route and explain the trade-offs so you can sign off, rather than deciding silently.
The trial period is on us. If it isn’t working, you don’t pay for it and we match you with someone else, or we part ways. No lock-in, month-to-month after the first month.
React/Next?
Ready to hire.
Send the JD. Vetted React and Next.js CVs in 48 hours, trials this week, sprint next.