Typed, accessible web applications that stay fast on a mid-range phone, with Core Web Vitals treated as a requirement rather than a report.
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.
Four architectural decisions that surface as symptoms much later.
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.
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.
Interactive elements built from unlabelled divs, so keyboard and screen-reader users cannot use features that work fine with a mouse.
A date library here and an animation framework there, each small in isolation, together deciding the performance ceiling before any feature is written.
Architecture that makes the good outcomes the default.
Static, server-rendered and client-interactive chosen per route against real requirements, rather than one pattern applied everywhere.
Bundle size and Core Web Vitals thresholds enforced in CI, so a regression fails a pull request instead of a quarterly audit.
Semantic markup, focus management and keyboard support built into the component library, verified with axe in CI and with real assistive technology.
Tokens and components that keep the interface consistent and make new screens fast to build.
WebSocket or SSE where the product genuinely needs live data, with reconnection and backpressure handled properly.
Core flows work without JavaScript where that is achievable, and offline support via service workers where the product benefits.
Quality gates from the first sprint, not the last.
Rendering strategy, data flow, performance scopes and accessibility standard agreed and written down.
Design system, component library, CI with Lighthouse and axe gates, and preview environments.
Fortnightly increments with every pull request measured against the scopes.
Real-device testing, assistive technology testing, load testing and image and font optimisation.
Staged rollout with real-user monitoring, so field data confirms what the lab said.
Mainstream, typed and boring in the right places.
Server components where they cut client JavaScript, client interactivity only where it is needed.
Token-driven styling that stays consistent and ships almost no unused CSS.
Typed contracts from database to component so a schema change is a compile error.
Performance and accessibility enforced automatically on every change.
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.
Both are enforced in CI from the first sprint, because a scope that only exists in a document is a scope that gets exceeded.
Bundle size, Core Web Vitals and axe checks gate every pull request, so quality cannot quietly erode.
A working demo and a written note every Friday covering what shipped, what slipped and what it means for the date. No status theatre.
Nothing goes live in one jump. We run in parallel or behind a flag until the numbers say it is safe to switch over.