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Web application development at Auravon means production React and Next.js applications with server-rendered performance, real authentication, and accessibility treated as a requirement rather than an audit finding. We build the customer-facing product and the internal tools on one stack, so one team maintains both.

  • Core Web Vitals budgeted at design time
  • WCAG 2.2 AA as the working baseline
  • One stack for product and internal tools
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How it runs · 5 steps

  1. Set the performance budget
  2. Design the component system
  3. Build auth and permissions properly
  4. Model the data for real queries
  5. Measure on real devices

Built with

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • Design tokens
  • CSS
  • Node.js

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Performance is a conversion problem before it is an engineering one

We budget Core Web Vitals at design time — image strategy, font loading, and what genuinely needs to be interactive — because retrofitting a fast page onto a slow architecture costs more than building it correctly once. The decision about how much JavaScript ships is an architecture decision, and it is made early or not at all.

Accessibility works the same way. Keyboard and screen-reader support designed in from the start is ordinary engineering; added after a complaint, it is a rebuild of every interactive component.

The Problem

What this usually fixes

  • A fast prototype that got slow

    Every feature added a dependency, the bundle grew quietly, and now the first load is measured in seconds on a real phone.

  • Accessibility discovered during procurement

    A customer's compliance questionnaire arrives and the answer requires rebuilding every interactive component.

  • Auth held together with patches

    Sessions, roles, and permission checks accreted feature by feature, and nobody can state confidently who can see what.

  • Two stacks, two teams

    The customer product and the internal admin tool were built separately, so every change costs twice and drifts apart.

How We Work

The process

Each step produces something you can review — a document, an environment, or working software — rather than a percentage in a status report.

  1. Set the performance budget

    Target metrics agreed before design, on the devices and networks your users actually have rather than a developer laptop.

  2. Design the component system

    Tokens, components, and states defined once and implemented in code, so the built product matches the design without reconciliation.

  3. Build auth and permissions properly

    Sessions, roles, and access checks designed as one system rather than accumulated per feature.

  4. Model the data for real queries

    A schema designed for the queries you will actually run at volume, with migrations under version control.

  5. Measure on real devices

    Core Web Vitals verified on real hardware before launch, and monitored after, so regressions are caught by a build rather than a user.

What You Get

Why teams choose this

  • Speed that holds as you grow

    A performance budget set at design time keeps the third year as fast as the first, instead of degrading feature by feature.

  • Accessible without a remediation project

    WCAG 2.2 AA as the working baseline means a compliance questionnaire is a form to fill in, not a quarter of rework.

  • One stack, one team

    Customer product and internal tooling share a codebase and a component system, so changes land once.

  • Search-visible by construction

    Server rendering, clean markup, and real URLs — the technical SEO foundation, handled by the architecture rather than a plugin.

Stack

Technologies we build with

Tools we have delivered production work on, not a capability matrix. We pick per project and will explain the trade-off behind each choice.

Frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • TypeScript
Styling
  • Tailwind
  • Design tokens
  • CSS
Backend
  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
Platform
  • Vercel
  • AWS
  • Docker
Industries

Who this is for

Applicable anywhere the product is the website — and doubly so where the audience is on mid-range phones.

  • B2B software
  • Fintech
  • E-commerce & retail
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Logistics
  • Marketplaces
  • Professional services
Questions

Web Application Development: common questions

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Should we use Next.js or Astro?

Next.js when the product is an application — authenticated dashboards, complex interaction, real-time state. Astro when the product is primarily content that must load fast and rank, such as marketing sites, documentation, and blogs, where shipping almost no JavaScript is the advantage. Many companies need both, and they coexist cleanly. We make the call against what the pages actually do, not against which framework is currently fashionable.

How do you make sure the application stays fast?

A performance budget agreed before design, measured on real devices rather than a developer laptop, and enforced in the build so a regression fails the pipeline instead of reaching production. The architectural decisions matter most: how much runs on the server, which components genuinely need interactivity, how images and fonts load. Those are cheap at design time and expensive afterwards, which is why they are made first rather than optimised later.

Do you handle accessibility compliance?

We build to WCAG 2.2 AA as the working baseline — semantic markup, keyboard operability, visible focus, sufficient contrast, and screen-reader-tested interactive components. That covers the substance of most procurement questionnaires and accessibility statements. We do not issue formal certification or legal sign-off; where a client needs an independent audit for regulatory reasons, we build to the standard and support the auditor rather than marking our own work.

Can you take over an existing application?

Yes. We start with a short paid assessment: reading the codebase, mapping the deployment and data model, and producing a written list of the risks worth addressing first, ranked by cost and urgency. That document is yours regardless of whether we do the work. Taking over an unfamiliar system without that step is how estimates go wrong, so we do not skip it even when the request is urgent.
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Where we apply this

The same work looks different depending on the constraints it has to hold. These cover what changes.

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Building something, or rescuing something?

Both are normal. New builds start with a costed scope; existing applications start with a short paid assessment you keep either way.

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