The problemThe app is 90% done, the developer stopped answering, and Google sees nothing.
In shortReact development services build, finish, speed up and migrate React and Next.js web apps. Pixel & Oak is a remote studio for founders and teams whose React app is slow, half-finished, stuck on Create React App or invisible on Google. Fixed-price projects start at $3,500 and take 3–10 weeks; existing code gets a short paid audit first.
React is the default for modern web products, so there is a great deal of React out there that grew fast and now nobody wants to touch. The developer stops answering at 90% done. Each release gets slower and someone proposes a rewrite. Or the site launches and Google shows only the homepage, because the content appears only after JavaScript runs.
We do both kinds of work: building React and Next.js apps properly the first time, and untangling them when they were not. When we audit a slow or stalled React app, we check three things first: the bundle, the renders and the data fetching. Each has a different fix. Our AI agents work on a branch, and Haider Ali, the founder, reviews every pull request before it merges.
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These are the moments people usually start looking for React help.
The launch stalls for weeks or months, you cannot reach your own hosting, and the half-built app keeps failing with nobody to fix it.
What we doA short paid audit first. Then we move the repository, hosting, domain and database into your own accounts, give you an honest finish-or-restart call, and leave handover notes at the end.
When content appears only after JavaScript runs, pages can go missing from Google and from AI crawlers that do not run JavaScript. Marketing spend goes to a site people cannot find.
What we doServer rendering or static generation, usually by moving public pages to Next.js, plus a title and description for every route, a sitemap, and a check in Search Console URL Inspection.
Older Lovable apps render in the browser, which can leave every route with the same title, no sitemap and thin metadata. Sign-ups wait while you wait for Google.
What we doIt is React underneath. We keep your data model and move the public pages to server-rendered Next.js, with metadata per route and a sitemap. For the security side of AI-built apps, see our MVP page.
Months of budget go into a rewrite while features freeze and users keep waiting, and a rewrite does not by itself make anything faster.
What we doWe profile first. Oversized bundles, needless re-renders and request waterfalls can each be fixed in place. We recommend a rewrite only when the architecture itself is the blocker.
The outsourced code ran fine until you tried to extend it. Now each feature costs more than the last, and nobody wants to touch the code.
What we doAn audit, then a clear component structure, TypeScript, tests around the parts being changed, and written notes so the next developer is not starting blind.
The React team deprecated Create React App in February 2025. Dependencies drift, React upgrades get harder, and security updates pile up on a build tool in maintenance mode.
What we doAn incremental migration to Vite for apps behind a login, or to Next.js for public pages that need search traffic, done without freezing feature work.
We would rather tell you now than take the project and disappoint you.
| Starts from | $3,500, fixed quote |
|---|---|
| Typical timeline | 3–10 weeks, depending on scope |
| Existing code | A short paid audit before any quote to fix it |
| Best for | Slow, stalled or invisible React and Next.js apps, and new builds |
| Not for | Simple brochure sites, where a static build is cheaper |
| What you own | Repository, hosting, domain and database, in your own accounts |
| Built with | Next.js App Router, React, TypeScript and Vite |
| How we work | On a branch, through reviewable pull requests, with written handover notes |
Worth knowing: A common and expensive misdiagnosis: a React app feels slow, so the team plans a rewrite. Often the real causes are a bundle nobody has looked at, components re-rendering far more than necessary, and requests waterfalling. All three can be fixed without a rewrite, for a fraction of the cost.
Next.js App Router, TypeScript, and a component structure that a future developer can follow.
Bundle analysis, code splitting that actually defers loading, render profiling, and Core Web Vitals brought into range.
Picking up abandoned or half-finished projects, starting with an honest assessment of what can be saved.
Pages Router to App Router, Create React App to Vite or Next.js, JavaScript to TypeScript. Done step by step, so you are never stuck mid-migration.
Server rendering or static generation for public pages, with a title, description and canonical URL on every route.
Reusable, documented, accessible components so your team stops rebuilding the same button.
Under your brand, NDA signed before the brief. See our white-label page.
A 22-second look at the work: rescue and completion of half-built React apps, search-ready rendering, performance work and migrations. From $3,500, 3–10 weeks.
The app is 90% done. The developer stopped answering. You cannot reach your own hosting. Google sees an empty page. Every new feature breaks two. There’s a better way. React development that finishes and fixes the stuck app. Rescue and completion. Search-ready rendering. Performance work and migrations. From $3,500 · 3–10 weeks · fixed quote. Get a fixed quote. pixelandoak.com/services/react-development
A plain React app sends the browser an almost empty page, then builds the content with JavaScript. Google can run JavaScript, but it renders those pages in a later pass, and many AI crawlers do not run it at all. The result: only the homepage shows up, or pages appear without a proper description.
You can check in two minutes. Open a page, choose View Source, and search for a sentence you can see on screen. If it is not in the source, crawlers that skip JavaScript cannot see it either.
If you also need a full technical SEO audit, that is a separate service. This page covers the code fix.
A rewrite should be the conclusion of an investigation, not the opening move. We profile first and show you what we found before recommending one of these.
| Option | When it fits | Cost and risk |
|---|---|---|
| Fix in place | Slowness comes from the bundle, re-renders or request waterfalls | Lowest cost; features keep shipping |
| Step-by-step migration | Stuck on Create React App, or public pages need server rendering | Moderate; done route by route, no feature freeze |
| Full rewrite | The architecture itself blocks what the product needs | Highest cost; features freeze until it ships |
Before anyone writes another line of code, secure what you own.
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Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Node.js, Next.js API routes, Cloudflare Workers
Postgres, Supabase, Cloudflare D1 and KV
Sanity, Payload, headless WordPress, or plain Markdown
Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce
OpenAI, Anthropic, and open models where they fit better
Vercel, Cloudflare Pages — in your account, not ours
Plausible, Fathom, GA4, Search Console
We work with any business that wins work on trust. These are the ones we have written about at length.
Not sure whether React work is what you actually need? Send over what you are trying to fix and we will tell you straight — including if a smaller job would do it.
Ask us first →For existing projects, a short paid audit first. We tell you what is wrong before quoting to fix it.
One price. Scope changes are re-quoted before work happens.
Your main branch is never the workspace. Everything is reviewable before it merges.
What changed, why, and what to watch, written so your next developer benefits.
AI agents from our Engineering, Quality & Security and Design & Film divisions do the work, in parallel. Haider Ali, founder and CEO, agrees the plan with you and signs off everything before it reaches you.
Real work that uses the same skills. Every card links to something you can open and inspect yourself.
Why code-split chunks still loaded on every page of our own site, with the measurements and the fix.
Free, MIT licensedOur open-source React dashboard: sortable tables and hand-drawn SVG charts in a color-blind-safe palette.
Headless ShopifyA Next.js store with a towel designer. Every order reaches Shopify as a draft order through the Admin API, with live carrier shipping rates.
Our fixed-price React projects start at $3,500 and typically take 3–10 weeks. For existing code we start with a short paid audit, so the quote to fix it is based on what is actually there. You pay for a defined result rather than open-ended hours, and scope changes are re-quoted before work happens.
Usually, yes. The common causes are an oversized bundle, unnecessary re-renders and requests that wait on each other, and each can be fixed in place. A rewrite is sometimes the right answer, but it is the expensive one, and it should be the conclusion of an investigation rather than the opening move.
Not if it is rendered properly. A React app that builds its pages in the browser can be indexed late or poorly, and AI crawlers that skip JavaScript may see nothing. Rendering public pages on the server or at build time, which Next.js does by default, gives search engines the full content on the first request.
Next.js for anything public-facing, because server rendering and routing come built in and SEO is not an afterthought. Plain React with Vite is fine for an internal tool behind a login, where search does not matter and a simpler setup is easier to maintain.
Vite if the app lives behind a login and does not need search traffic; it is the closest like-for-like move. Next.js if public pages need to rank on Google. Either way we migrate step by step, so feature work does not stop while the build tool changes underneath it.
Yes. We start with a short paid audit, so you get a real assessment of the code before committing to a fix. You get a written list of what is wrong, what it will take to fix, and whether finishing or restarting is the cheaper path.
Some teams move for smaller bundles or simpler tools, and the end of Create React App pushed many to rethink their setup. For most business apps, React itself is not the problem; the way it was set up is. Moving a working app to another framework is usually more expensive than fixing the setup you have.
Ask to see code they have shipped, not just a portfolio. Make sure the repository and hosting will sit in your accounts, that work happens on branches you can review, and that you get handover notes at the end. For existing code, anyone worth hiring will want to audit it before quoting a fix.
Yes. We can work inside your repository, follow your conventions, and review through your normal pull request process. Nothing merges without being seen, and every change comes with a short note on what changed and why. We can also pair with your developers on the parts they want to own.
Tell us about your business and we'll design a custom homepage concept within 48 hours — free, no strings attached.