Astro · Nuxt · Remix · Hydrogen · bespokeNext.js and Angular do not suit every project. Astro works well for content sites with a few interactive pieces. Nuxt fits teams that already write Vue. Remix handles nested route data neatly, and Hydrogen is the natural choice for headless Shopify. When none of those fit, we go further with options such as Hono on Cloudflare Workers, SvelteKit or Deno Fresh, picked by how your data is shaped and how pages need to render.
Next.js and Angular do not suit every project. Astro works well for content sites with a few interactive pieces. Nuxt fits teams that already write Vue. Remix handles nested route data neatly, and Hydrogen is the natural choice for headless Shopify. When none of those fit, we go further with options such as Hono on Cloudflare Workers, SvelteKit or Deno Fresh, picked by how your data is shaped and how pages need to render.
Focus areas
Speed, structured data and scale come up on every platform we work with. The code panels are simplified examples of what we check and change.
Some projects are better served by neither Next nor Angular. A content site with a handful of interactive widgets needs islands and no full React runtime. A team fluent in Vue moves faster on Nuxt than on something new to them. Headless Shopify has a clear default in Hydrogen. We choose based on your data, your rendering needs and the people who will maintain it.
Content-heavy pages are mostly static with a few interactive parts. An islands architecture sends plain HTML for the static bulk and hydrates only the interactive pieces, so a long article costs very little JavaScript. For app-like screens where components share state in the browser, islands are a poor match, and telling those cases apart is the job.
Rendering at the edge pays off when visitors are spread out, say from St. John’s to Victoria and beyond, and server response time is the bottleneck. The edge runtime is different from Node, though. Packages that expect a filesystem or native modules will fail there, so we check the dependency tree before choosing the edge.
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$ custom-stack --inspectAbout this stack
On a Custom Stack project, our Custom Development developers and SEO leads plan the build together, so search needs shape the architecture from the start. We design around the framework's quirks early and hand over code your own team can run and extend.
How we work
Projects move through the same stages in order. You can see progress at each one through regular written updates.
$ stack decide --scoreA shortlist of frameworks is rated on data shape, rendering needs, team skills and personalization, and we note why the others were ruled out.
$ bench --route=/p/[slug]Both finalists get a real route built with real data. Numbers from a build you can run yourself are worth more than anything in a blog post.
$ cat render-contract.mdA file in the repository lists which routes are static, which run at the edge and which need Node, so later changes are deliberate.
$ redirects verify --against=sitemapContent moves into the headless CMS, canonicals and 301s are mapped, and the old site keeps serving traffic until rankings settle on the new one.
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Packages and our build standards do not change from one framework to the next. You will find them on the Custom Development page, next to the comparison we use to choose a stack.
FAQs
Straight answers to what Canadian clients ask us before they commit.
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Tell us what you run, where it is hosted and what has gone wrong lately. One of our engineers looks it over by hand and sends back the first fixes we would make, whether or not you hire us. Marketing and development questions are welcome too.
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