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Dedicated Next.js engineers

Hire Next.js developers who care about the HTML Google actually fetches.

Need a Next.js engineer for a content site, a marketing frontend, or an App Router app on top of a headless CMS? DayDecoder hires people who ship server-rendered pages, not a SPA that forgot why you chose Next. Overlap hours for the US, UK, Europe and Australia.

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What our Next.js developers build.

Next.js is the right hire when the URL is a product: property listings, content, tools, and pages that must render for a crawler without a prayer and a client bundle.

The public example on this site is the luxury real estate platform: Next.js, Tailwind, Strapi and PostgreSQL for premium listings, virtual tours and lead capture. That is a different job from a React dashboard behind a login. We will not staff a private admin SPA as “Next.js SEO” just because the skeleton was create-next-app.

A useful Next.js hire here can explain caching, when to use a server component, and how metadata, sitemaps and canonicals are generated from CMS data. They should also know when Next is the wrong tool — for example a heavily authenticated Laravel app that is already fine in Blade or Inertia. We would rather send you to the React or Laravel hire page than decorate a server you do not need.

  • Listing and content sites

    Pages generated from a CMS or database, with filters that stay crawlable where they should, and indexable where they should not (faceted traps included).

  • Metadata, sitemaps, canonicals

    Titles and descriptions from real fields, not a single default. Canonicals that match how you want Google to count the site.

  • App Router architecture

    Server components for the data, client islands for the widgets. No “use client” wallpaper on the whole tree because someone pasted a chart.

  • Headless CMS wiring

    Strapi or similar, preview, and a content model an editor can use without calling a developer to “put the hero on the page”.

Skills and tool stack

Next.js stack we staff.

Current Next, TypeScript, and the CMS you already pay for unless we agree a migration.

Typical tools: Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind, a PostgreSQL or CMS backend, and host-level caching you can explain (ISR, on-demand revalidation, or a CDN in front). Testing with Playwright on the templates that bring traffic. We work in Pages Router if that is the site; we will not force an App Router rewrite as a vanity project.

Framework

  • Next.js App Router
  • TypeScript
  • React Server Components
  • Route handlers

Content

  • Strapi or another headless CMS
  • MDX when it is actually content
  • PostgreSQL when Next talks to a database

SEO plumbing

  • Metadata API
  • sitemaps
  • canonicals
  • Open Graph images you can regenerate

Delivery

  • Vercel, AWS or a Node host you already use
  • Playwright
  • ESLint

Engagement models

Dedicated Next.js time, part-time content-engineering, or hourly SEO fixes.

A listing site usually wants a dedicated owner. A metadata incident can be hourly. We will say which is which.

Dedicated full-time Next.js developer

Owns templates, CMS models and Core Web Vitals on the pages that matter. Best when the public site is a growth channel, not a brochure afterthought.

Part-time dedicated

A few days a week beside your marketing team: new templates, preview, and the crawl budget you keep breaking with query strings.

Hourly Next.js help

A canonical mess, a 500 on generateStaticParams, a preview leak. Time-logged. A “quick theme change” that is really a redesign will be renamed.

Hiring process

How we put a Next.js developer on your site.

Bring Search Console, the CMS, and the URLs that already rank — or the ones you wish would.

  1. 1

    Look at the crawl, not the Figma

    Thirty minutes with the founder: host, CMS, and whether the problem is rendering, content, or both.

  2. 2

    Written Next.js proposal

    Dedicated, part-time or hourly. If the job is actually Laravel Blade plus SEO, we will say so and point at those pages.

  3. 3

    Preview and production parity

    Access to CMS preview, production env, and analytics. We will not ship against a mock that never sees draft content.

  4. 4

    First template with honest metadata

    One content type, title, description, canonical, and a sitemap entry you can fetch.

  5. 5

    Weekly demo on a public URL

    Staging that a crawler could theoretically see. Screenshots of localhost are not a Next.js demo.

Next.js work across US, UK, EU and Australian hours.

Content launches often sit in a marketing calendar in New York or London. We keep overlap so a go-live is a shared call, not a surprise at 2 a.m. local. Rebuilds and dependency upgrades run in India hours so your morning has a URL, not a “compiling” message.

If you use a US-based host, deploys and cache busts are scheduled with that in mind. We will not clear a production cache at the start of your Friday demo unless you asked for that excitement.

  • United States

    Morning updates waiting in your inbox when the US workday starts.

  • United Kingdom

    Same-day overlap for calls, reviews, and decisions.

  • Europe

    Afternoon overlap with Central and Eastern European teams.

  • Australia

    Early-morning calls that fit the Australian workday.

Why DayDecoder for a Next.js hire.

We already run SEO as a service and Laravel as a backend. Next.js is the front door when the URL has to work for search and for humans.

  • SEO is not a plugin we forgot

    Canonicals, sitemaps and metadata are in the hire’s job description. Our SEO service exists if you also want content and ads; this page is the engineering seat.

  • CMS-backed, editor-friendly

    If a marketer cannot update a listing without a pull request, the Next.js app is unfinished.

  • Honest when Next is extra

    Authenticated product UI is often React or Blade. We will not bolt App Router onto a problem it does not solve.

  • You own the site

    Custom Next.js and IP transfer on payment. Hosting accounts stay in your name whenever we set them up for you.

Relevant work

Next.js work in the public portfolio.

We only list projects whose stack includes Next.js. If the grid is short, that is the truthful count, not a failed scrape.

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FAQ

Questions about hiring Next.js developers.

Straight answers on the stack, ownership and time zones. Email us if yours is missing.

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Yes. The luxury real estate case study is Next.js with Strapi. We will match the CMS you already have unless you ask for a migration and we agree it is worth the downtime risk.

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