Web platforms
Next.js Development
We build Next.js front ends for platforms that have to be fast on a phone and indexable by Google, usually over a Laravel or Node.js API, sometimes over a headless commerce backend. Western Sydney University's Western Edge runs on exactly this pairing.
What we build with it
Server-rendered React
Next.js gives us React’s component model with server rendering, so a platform stays fast on a mid-range phone and remains fully indexable, rather than the blank page a client-only single-page app hands a crawler.
Front end over your existing API
We most often run Next.js over a Laravel or Node.js backend, which keeps business logic where it belongs and lets the interface be rebuilt without touching the systems underneath.
Headless commerce front ends
For retailers who want full control of the storefront experience, Next.js over Shopify’s Storefront API or Adobe Commerce, the same catalogue and checkout, a front end that is entirely yours.
Core Web Vitals as a build target
Performance is designed in rather than tuned afterwards: right-sized images and derivatives, deliberate hydration, and an LCP budget the build enforces. Our own site is held to the same gates in CI.
The proof
Work we have shipped, not a capability deck.
- Western Sydney University Western Edge, an employability platform on Laravel and Next.js, built for students opening it on a phone between classes. Read the case study
- Riptide Streaming video, digital magazines and merch in one platform, with a front end built for subscribers. Read the case study
- Safeproud A Next.js dashboard where administrators build job-site forms from twelve field types, with a live preview of the React Native app, on a Laravel backend. Read the case study
Common questions
When is Next.js the right choice?
When you need fast, search-visible pages plus genuine application behaviour in the same product, a marketing surface and a logged-in experience, or a content-heavy site with strict performance requirements. For a straightforward brochure site, a well-built CMS theme is usually less machinery for the same result.
Can Next.js work with our existing CMS?
Yes. We commonly pair a Next.js front end with a headless CMS, including WordPress, so editors keep the interface they know while the front end is rebuilt for speed. The trade-off to weigh is live preview, which needs deliberate work to preserve in a headless setup.
Do you do React development, or only Next.js?
Next.js is React. It is the framework most production React applications use, adding routing, rendering strategies and build tooling that you would otherwise assemble yourself. So if you are looking for React developers, this is the same work. We also work on plain React applications, including ones inside a larger platform, and on React Native for mobile.
What do you build with Next.js?
Front ends for applications rather than brochure sites: Western Sydney University's Western Edge platform pairs a Next.js front end with a Laravel backend, and Booka, the venue booking platform running across the Venues NSW stadium network, is Next.js and TypeScript over Postgres. Both need real application behaviour rather than pages.
Do you work with clients outside Sydney?
Our head office is in Sydney and we work with clients across Australia (Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and regional NSW included) as well as in New Zealand, where the duty free stores across the major airports have run on a platform we build and support since 2021. Delivery has been remote-first for years, so a project runs the same way whether you are ten minutes away or across the Tasman: scheduled calls, a shared board you can see at any time, and one named point of contact. We are happy to meet in person in Sydney.
How much does a Next.js build cost?
Next.js work is usually priced as an application rather than a website, because that is what it is, the cost sits in the data layer, the integrations and the rendering strategy. Whether you also need a CMS behind it changes the number materially. It depends far more on integrations, content and certainty of scope than on page count, so we would rather scope it than quote a number blind. Our guide to what a website costs in Australia sets out the typical market ranges, and how we engage explains the models.
How long does a Next.js project take?
A marketing front end on an existing CMS is quick. A headless rebuild is longer, because the work is as much about content modelling and migration as about the front end. The honest answer is that scope decides it, not the platform. How we engage sets out the engagement models and the timeline ranges each one tends to run to, and we give you a milestone plan once we have scoped the work rather than a number before.
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