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Web Development

Websites and web apps built to stay fast as they grow

We build on the stack that fits the job: WordPress and headless WordPress for content-driven sites, React and Next.js for performance-critical products and custom web applications. Every build is optimized for speed, SEO and long-term maintainability.

web-development.stack.json

{

"capabilities": 8,

"process": 6-step delivery,

"stack": [

"WordPress",

"Headless CMS",

"React",

"Next.js"

]

}

Before / after

What changes when UpHive builds it

We build on the stack that fits the job: WordPress and headless WordPress for content-driven sites, React and Next.js for performance-critical products and custom web applications. Every build is optimized for speed, SEO and long-term maintainability.

The usual pattern

  • A site that looks fine but loads slow enough to lose visitors before they see it

  • A CMS the team can't actually update without calling a developer

  • Code that only the original builder understands, making every change risky

With UpHive

  • A site your team can actually manage after launch

  • Performance and SEO treated as requirements, not afterthoughts

  • A codebase built to be extended, not rebuilt in two years

What's included

Everything under this service

  1. 01

    Website Development

    Custom-built, responsive websites optimized for speed and search.

  2. 02

    WordPress Development

    Bespoke WordPress builds — themes, plugins and CMS architecture.

  3. 03

    Headless WordPress

    WordPress as a content engine behind a fast React/Next.js front end.

  4. 04

    React Development

    Interactive, component-driven front ends built with React.

  5. 05

    Next.js Development

    Production-grade Next.js applications with server-side rendering and edge performance.

  6. 06

    Custom Web Applications

    Bespoke internal tools and customer-facing platforms built around your workflow.

  7. 07

    API Integrations

    Connecting your site or app to CRMs, payment gateways and third-party services.

  8. 08

    Performance Engineering

    Core Web Vitals, load time and rendering work treated as a deliverable, not an afterthought.

What you walk away with

  • Technical architecture & stack selection
  • Responsive, accessible front end
  • CMS or headless content layer
  • Performance & SEO optimization
  • QA across devices and browsers

Ideal for

  • Businesses needing a new website
  • Teams migrating to a modern stack
  • Products outgrowing a page builder
Technology

Chosen for what it lets us build

Not a list of buzzwords — here's what each technology is actually good for, and when we reach for it.

WordPress

The most proven CMS for content-heavy sites — flexible, SEO-friendly and easy for your team to manage.

  • Runs a third of the web — well understood
  • Huge plugin ecosystem
  • Content team can manage it without a developer

Ideal for

  • Corporate and marketing sites
  • Content-heavy sites a client team edits themselves
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Headless CMS

WordPress (or another CMS) as a content engine behind a fast React or Next.js front end.

  • Content team keeps a familiar editing experience
  • Front end is free to be as fast and custom as needed

Ideal for

  • Products that need CMS content plus a highly custom, high-performance front end

React

The standard for interactive, component-driven interfaces — and the foundation React Native builds on.

  • Huge ecosystem and hiring pool
  • Composable, reusable UI
  • Battle-tested at scale

Ideal for

  • Interactive product UIs
  • Design systems
  • Teams standardizing on one front-end language

Next.js

Our default for products and web apps — fast by default, and it scales from a landing page to a full platform.

  • Server-side rendering out of the box
  • File-based routing
  • One framework from marketing site to full app

Ideal for

  • Marketing sites that need to rank
  • Web applications
  • Headless CMS front ends

TypeScript

Fewer runtime surprises. Every serious codebase we ship is typed, end to end.

  • Catches bugs before production
  • Self-documenting code
  • Safer refactors as a codebase grows

Ideal for

  • Any codebase expected to outlive its first version
AI

API Integration

Connecting a site or product to CRMs, payment gateways and third-party services it needs to talk to.

  • Extends what an off-the-shelf platform can do
  • Keeps systems in sync automatically

Ideal for

  • Connecting a website to a CRM, payment processor or internal tool

PHP

Still the engine behind most of the web's CMS and commerce platforms — including the ones we build on.

  • Powers WordPress and WooCommerce natively
  • Mature, well-understood ecosystem

Ideal for

  • Any WordPress or WooCommerce build
How we work

A clear path, from kickoff to launch

No surprises, no scope creep left unspoken — just a structured milestone path from idea to production.

01

Discover

Goals, users and constraints defined up front — no template, no guesswork.

02

Plan

Scope, timeline and technical approach agreed before any design or code starts.

03

Design

Reviewed with you at every stage, before a line of production code is written.

04

Develop

Clean, tested, production-grade code with regular checkpoints, not a black box.

05

Launch

A deliberate release — QA'd, monitored, and live without surprises.

06

Grow

Launch is the start — we stay on for iteration and support as the product grows.

Why UpHive

Engineered as a system, not a one-off build

  • Architecture that outlives the first release

    Every build is typed, componentized and documented as we go — the next feature means extending the system, not rewriting it.

  • CMS-ready by default

    Content and code stay separated from day one, so adding or swapping a CMS later never means touching the front end.

  • Built for the load you'll actually have

    Performance budgets and caching strategy are part of the architecture conversation from the start, not a fix applied after launch.

  • One engineer owns the system

    The person who designs the architecture is the one who ships and maintains it — no hand-off, no drift between plan and code.

How we layer a system

Delivery

CDN / edge caching

Application

React, Next.js

Content

WordPress, headless CMS

Integrations

APIs, payments, CRM

FAQ

Questions worth asking before you start

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