Project Description
Our marketing pages and main dashboard are built with React 18, Next 13 (mix of SSR, SSG, a little ISR), TypeScript, Tailwind and Redux. Traffic is growing fast and the first pain point is plain-and-simple load time; I’m watching TTFB and FCP drift past our targets and I want that trend reversed before the next release goes live.
You’ll step in as a senior owner of the frontend layer, profile what’s dragging us down and ship the fixes. Six years of hands-on React/Next work is essential because I need somebody who recognises anti-patterns instantly and can move from audit to optimisation without a long ramp-up. The stack also touches SCSS, REST endpoints, Jest tests and a bit of Redis-backed caching, so fluency there is useful even though the core focus stays on the browser side.
Key things I’m counting on you to handle
• Deep bundle analysis, code-splitting, tree-shaking and any other techniques that cut initial download size
• Smart use of Next.js features—dynamic imports, image optimisation, prefetching and edge middlwares—to get us sub-second LCP on average connections
• Tight Redux implementation: eliminate unnecessary re-renders, normalise state where it helps and prove the wins in React Profiler
• Lighthouse and Web Vitals tracking wired into CI so we never ship a regression again
Acceptance for this engagement is straightforward: when the public pages score 90+ for Performance in Lighthouse mobile tests and average LCP drops below 1.8 s in production, we’re done. Clean, well-commented commits and a short hand-off note are the only other deliverables I expect.
I’m ready to give you repository access immediately; just tell me your typical workflow and the first milestone you’d like to hit.