A React pod that reviews its own PRs and ships to production.
For teams shipping React, Next.js, or Remix who need senior velocity without senior hiring. Pod live in 2 hours, first PR by day 2.
What good React looks like in 2026.
React in 2026 is not the React of 2020. The patterns that worked for a Create-React-App SPA collapse under Server Components, Suspense streaming, and partial pre-rendering. Most teams that started with React three years ago have shipped enough TanStack Query and Redux Toolkit and ad-hoc useEffects that they can no longer move quickly. The team is not slower. The codebase is. A pod that has lived through several Next.js major upgrades knows how to dig out without ripping everything.
What changes when a Metafic pod is in your repo.
Server Components by default, client only when needed
We start with React Server Components and ship client components only for surfaces that actually need interactivity. The shape of your codebase changes when 70% of your tree no longer ships to the browser.
Typed end-to-end, including data fetching
TypeScript on both ends with strict mode by week one. tRPC, Zod-validated route handlers, or GraphQL with codegen depending on what your backend looks like. No more "any" shipping to production.
Observability before optimization
Sentry, Vercel Analytics, OpenTelemetry, or your own pipeline plumbed in before we touch a performance budget. We do not optimize what we cannot measure.
Testing where it pays back
Vitest for components and hooks, Playwright for the critical paths. We do not aim for 100% coverage. We aim for the 15 to 20 user journeys that, if they break, the business stops.
AI agents that know your codebase, not generic ones
Each engineer pairs with a custom AI agent that has read your repo. Boilerplate, type extractions, and migration scaffolds get generated, then reviewed by a senior human before merge.
Who is on the pod for this work.
Pods scale up from here for Enterprise engagements.
Tech lead with 8+ years in React, has owned production Next.js stacks at scale.
5+ years React, deep TypeScript, comfortable with Server Components and Edge runtimes.
Playwright-fluent, builds the critical-path test suite alongside dev (not after).
Code-review pre-checks, test scaffolding, migration helpers, tuned to your repo.
The bugs that bite this stack.
Server/client boundary leaks
Most teams have at least one "use client" boundary higher up than it needs to be, dragging the rest of the tree into the browser bundle. We audit and fix in week two.
Hydration mismatches in the wild
Date formatting, locale, conditional rendering on user state. Bugs that fire for some users on some pages. We have a checklist.
The wrong data layer cementing in
RSC fetch + cache, TanStack Query, SWR, Apollo, tRPC, GraphQL. Picking wrong for a 200-page app is a six-month rewrite. We help pick before the codebase commits.
Next.js major-version debt
Many teams sit on Next.js 14 because the 15 upgrade was scary. We do these in feature branches with traffic shadow.
Honest about scope.
We will not tell you React is the right answer if Phoenix LiveView or HTMX would actually fit better for your case. We will not bring in a UI library when the work is to fix the 30 components you already shipped. And we will not take work where the spec is "make the design system better" without a measurable outcome attached.
On the Kuwait proptech engagement, the React work cut listing-to-live time from 4 hours to under 10 minutes. The pod's first three weeks were not code.
Read the full case studyCommon questions.
Do you do React Native?
Yes, but as a separate engagement. The mental model and the tooling are different enough that the same pod usually should not do both at the same time.
We are on Create React App. Should we migrate to Next.js?
Depends on what is actually slow. If your bundle is large because of code-splitting choices, that is fixable in CRA. If you need SSR/SSG/RSC and your routing is fighting CRA, then yes. We look at the codebase before recommending a migration.
Can you work alongside our existing React engineers?
Yes. About half our engagements are "pod plus existing team". We slot into your PR review process, your standup, and your retros. The combined team is yours.
How long until the first PR in our repo?
Day 2. The pod is live in your repo within 2 hours of contract signature. The first PR is a small, safe change in week one that proves the integration. Real feature work starts week two.
Ready to scope it?
A 25-minute call. We will tell you what we would do, what we would not, and whether a pod is the right shape.
Or stay in the loop. One engineering teardown a week.