Web Development Services

What is web development at TPC?

Web development, as we practice it, is the end-to-end discipline of turning an idea into a fast, durable, and maintainable product running on the public internet. That includes the visual front end, the data layer, the API surface, the build pipeline, the CDN configuration, the analytics wiring, the security posture, and the operational story for the next engineer who touches it. We do not treat the website as decoration around a backend; we treat the whole thing as one product with one set of users.

Our default architecture is a Next.js App Router project deployed to Cloudflare Pages, with server components for data-heavy views, route handlers for typed APIs, and a thin client layer for genuinely interactive surfaces. We lean on edge runtimes for latency-sensitive paths and Node runtimes when we need the full ecosystem.

When you need this

You should hire us for web development if you are a founder or operator who needs a working product, not a prototype that someone else has to rewrite in six months. Typical clients include early-stage startups shipping their first customer-facing product, established companies rebuilding a legacy frontend, and teams that want a credible marketing site that compounds in search instead of decaying.

If you already have a senior frontend team and you need staff augmentation, that is not a great fit — we work best as the small, accountable group that owns the whole stack and ships against a clear outcome.

Our approach

We start with a single document describing what success looks like in three months — the actual pages, flows, and metrics. Then we cut scope until version one fits in two weeks and we can put it in front of real users. From there it is short loops: ship, measure, decide, ship again. We avoid long-running feature branches, mock data that lives forever, and design systems that exist mostly to be admired.

We are aggressive about TypeScript strictness, accessibility defaults, Core Web Vitals, and predictable deploys. We prefer boring, well-supported tools over novelty. The goal is a repository the next engineer can open on day one and understand by lunch.

Tech stack we use

Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router), React 19 with server components, and TypeScript in strict mode.
Styling: Tailwind CSS with a small number of hand-rolled primitives, Framer Motion when motion adds meaning.
Infrastructure: Cloudflare Pages, Workers, KV, R2, and D1 where appropriate; Vercel when the project demands it.
Data: PostgreSQL via Supabase or Neon, Drizzle or Prisma, edge-friendly caching with stale-while-revalidate.
Tooling: pnpm, ESLint, Prettier, Playwright, Vitest, GitHub Actions, and pre-commit hooks that actually run.

Typical engagement

A standard engagement runs four to twelve weeks at a fixed weekly rate. Week one is discovery, scope cutting, and a working skeleton in production behind a preview URL. Weeks two through four are feature work in tight increments. Beyond that we either roll into a retainer for ongoing product work or hand off a clean repository with documentation and a runbook.

We deploy continuously. Every PR has its own preview URL. We do not batch releases or wait for a quarterly cutover.

Examples of work

This very site — theportlandcompany.com — is a Next.js 15 App Router project on Cloudflare Pages with self-hosted fonts, server-rendered service pages, JSON-LD across every route, and a pre-commit hook that verifies the Cloudflare Pages build before anything reaches the remote. We also built Focus: Finance, a personal finance dashboard with Plaid integration, server-side category inference, and a responsive React 19 client.

What we don't do: WordPress themes, Wix/Squarespace customization, jQuery maintenance, or any project that requires us to inherit a frontend monorepo with more than two years of unowned tech debt and no rewrite budget.