Freelance Next.js developer who also designs the interface. Typed, accessible, server-rendered where it helps, with a headless CMS behind it. From $24/hour.
I build Next.js and React applications from $24 per hour, and I design the interface too. That covers App Router projects, server components, a headless CMS behind the front end, and the accessibility and performance work that usually gets deferred and then never done.
Hiring separately for Next.js design and development creates a specific failure: the developer implements the mockup faithfully and the result still feels wrong, because interaction detail was never in the mockup to begin with.
One person doing both removes that gap. It also removes the week of back-and-forth about what the design meant.
The useful default is rendering on the server and shipping client JavaScript only where interaction genuinely requires it. A product page that fetches and renders on the server is faster and simpler than the same page assembled in the browser.
That is a default, not a rule. A genuinely interactive dashboard is a client application and pretending otherwise produces something worse than either approach.
Types from the CMS schema through to the component props mean a content model change surfaces as a build error rather than a blank section discovered in production.
This matters more on headless projects than people expect, because the content shape is defined somewhere else by someone else and changes without warning.
Keyboard navigation, focus management, labelled controls and sensible contrast are build-time decisions. Retrofitting them means revisiting every component, which is why it rarely happens.
Same for Core Web Vitals: image sizing, font loading and bundle weight are cheap to get right during the build and expensive to fix after.
From $24 per hour or $900 per week. A marketing site with a headless CMS typically runs two to four weeks; an application with authentication and real data is longer and scoped per feature.
Astro if the site is mostly content people read with a few interactive pieces. Next.js if there is a real application alongside the content - accounts, dashboards, personalised views. If your interactive islands need to share state, you wanted Next.
Payload, Strapi or Sanity, chosen on how your team works rather than on feature lists. Payload when you want full control and TypeScript throughout, Sanity when multiple editors collaborate heavily, Strapi when self-hosting matters.
Yes. That means matching existing conventions rather than importing mine, and reading enough of the codebase first to avoid adding a second way of doing something that is already solved.
Full Time Contract Available. Tell me about your project, your timeline and your budget, and I’ll reply with an approach and a rate.
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