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Typed, accessible web applications that stay fast on a mid-range phone, with Core Web Vitals treated as a requirement rather than a report.

150+
Applications Shipped
100/100
Lighthouse Targets
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility
Typed
End To End
Web development code open in an editor
Overview

Fast and accessible are engineering decisions, not a final polish

Performance and accessibility are decided by architecture, not by a cleanup sprint. Whether the bundle is 90KB or 900KB, whether the interface works from the keyboard, whether layout shifts as data arrives, are all consequences of choices made in week one.

So we make them deliberately. Server rendering where it helps, client interactivity only where it earns its weight, images sized to their containers, and semantic markup that gives assistive technology something to work with by default rather than by remediation.

This is not a premium tier. It is what competent web engineering looks like, and it is cheaper than retrofitting either quality later. The same approach that gets our own applications to full Core Web Vitals scores.

Teams that start here often pair it with SaaS development, mobile app development and REST to GraphQL migration.

A performance audit at the end of a project finds problems that were decided in week one. That is the wrong week to be looking.

Frontend developer designing an interface
The Problem

Why web apps get slow and inaccessible

Four architectural decisions that surface as symptoms much later.

Client-Side Everything

A single-page application ships megabytes of JavaScript to render content that could have arrived as HTML, and the first paint waits for all of it.

Unsized Media

Images without dimensions and fonts without fallback metrics cause layout to jump as assets land, which is both a metric failure and a genuinely bad experience.

Div Soup

Interactive elements built from unlabelled divs, so keyboard and screen-reader users cannot use features that work fine with a mouse.

Unbounded Dependencies

A date library here and an animation framework there, each small in isolation, together deciding the performance ceiling before any feature is written.

What's Included

What a web app engagement covers

Architecture that makes the good outcomes the default.

Rendering Strategy

Static, server-rendered and client-interactive chosen per route against real requirements, rather than one pattern applied everywhere.

Performance Scopes

Bundle size and Core Web Vitals thresholds enforced in CI, so a regression fails a pull request instead of a quarterly audit.

Accessible Components

Semantic markup, focus management and keyboard support built into the component library, verified with axe in CI and with real assistive technology.

Design System

Tokens and components that keep the interface consistent and make new screens fast to build.

Real-Time Features

WebSocket or SSE where the product genuinely needs live data, with reconnection and backpressure handled properly.

Progressive Improvement

Core flows work without JavaScript where that is achievable, and offline support via service workers where the product benefits.

Our Process

From architecture to launched application through controlled rollout

Quality gates from the first sprint, not the last.

01
Architecture

Rendering strategy, data flow, performance scopes and accessibility standard agreed and written down.

02
Foundations

Design system, component library, CI with Lighthouse and axe gates, and preview environments.

03
Build

Fortnightly increments with every pull request measured against the scopes.

04
Hardening

Real-device testing, assistive technology testing, load testing and image and font optimisation.

05
Launch

Staged rollout with real-user monitoring, so field data confirms what the lab said.

Tech Stack

The stack behind our web applications

Mainstream, typed and boring in the right places.

01
Framework

Server components where they cut client JavaScript, client interactivity only where it is needed.

02
Styling

Token-driven styling that stays consistent and ships almost no unused CSS.

TailwindDesign TokensCSS ModulesContainer Queries
03
Data

Typed contracts from database to component so a schema change is a compile error.

04
Quality

Performance and accessibility enforced automatically on every change.

In The Field

What this looks like in production

Healthcare · Patient Portal

A portal that had to work on an eight-year-old phone

A healthcare provider needed a patient portal used largely by older patients on old devices and poor connections. The existing single-page application shipped 1.4MB of JavaScript and took eleven seconds to become usable on a mid-range Android handset.

We rebuilt it server-rendered with client interactivity confined to the few components that needed it, and set a hard 120KB scope enforced in CI. Accessibility work included proper focus management and testing with a screen reader rather than only automated checks.

Support calls about the portal being broken dropped sharply. Most of them had never been bugs; the application had simply been too slow to feel responsive.

11s → 1.9s
Time to interactive
1.4MB → 118KB
JavaScript shipped
WCAG 2.2 AA
Verified compliance
Why Tech Team 4U

What to expect from a web app development company

Both are enforced in CI from the first sprint, because a scope that only exists in a document is a scope that gets exceeded.

Scopes Enforced In CI

Bundle size, Core Web Vitals and axe checks gate every pull request, so quality cannot quietly erode.

Weekly Transparency

A working demo and a written note every Friday covering what shipped, what slipped and what it means for the date. No status theatre.

Staged, Not Risky

Nothing goes live in one jump. We run in parallel or behind a flag until the numbers say it is safe to switch over.

150+
Applications Shipped
10+
Years Engineering
100/100
Lighthouse Targets
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility