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04Web Development

Web Development with Next.js & React

Client-facing applications where the hard part is the data model, not the pixels. Portals, internal tools, and anything replacing a spreadsheet that six people fight over.

Staged releases

04.1 What it covers

  • Next.js App Router applications, server-rendered by default, typed end to end.
  • Client portals: document intake, status, deadlines — the things clients currently phone about.
  • Internal tools that replace a shared spreadsheet, with the permissions the spreadsheet never had.
  • Postgres schemas designed before the screens, because the data model is the part you cannot refactor cheaply.
  • Auth, roles and audit trails treated as features rather than afterthoughts.

04.2 How the work runs

  1. Model the data

    Entities, relationships and the rules that are actually invariants. Written down and agreed before any UI exists.

  2. Ship a thin slice

    One complete path through the app, deployed, so the shape is real rather than described.

  3. Build in stages

    Feature by feature, each one released rather than accumulated, so nothing waits on everything.

  4. Hand off

    Architecture notes written up alongside the code.

04.3 Tools

04.4 Other services

Start with the process, not the platform.

Send the current version — a spreadsheet, a recording, a list of complaints. That is a better brief than a form.

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