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Work as a Next.js Developer

Projects where rendering is yours: which page serves on the server, what gets built at build time and what the client requests. Shakers matches you with briefs aligned to your stack, rate and availability.

The role reads in two places: the posting asking for «App Router and Server Components» as if they were a year of experience and the thread debating SSR versus SSG without showing how it is decided on a real product. Here goes the second: how you learn to decide it, project by project.

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AI Agent Developer

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Backend Developer & Data Engineer

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Software Developer

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Product Designer

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What a Next.js Developer decides, and what they touch

A Next.js developer is the frontend specialist in the production framework for React: they solve routing with App Router, decide page by page between SSR, SSG and ISR, and hold the Core Web Vitals Google measures the web with. Against the React Developer, the library does not change: the responsibility does, from the isolated component to the complete product deployed on Vercel or self-hosted. The trade runs on TypeScript, with Server Components for server-side data and Playwright so nothing breaks in silence.

You decide the rendering strategy of each route, which data resolves on the server and which on the client, and the bundle budget each page holds. You also decide what does not migrate: the total rewrite is almost never the way, and saying so is part of the brief.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptApp RouterServer ComponentsSSRSSGISRVercelNode.jsAPI RoutesTailwind CSSPlaywrightCI/CDDockerStorybook App RouterSSRSSGISRServer ComponentsWeb Vitals

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Projects that live up to your expectations

Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.

  • Projects that fit you

    Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.

  • Opportunities that come to you

    Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.

  • You build. Shakers handles the rest

    Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.

What a Next.js Developer delivers on a Shakers project

At Shakers

The brief arrives with the product

Shakers is hiring infrastructure: the project arrives with the repository, the CMS or the data and its owner, not with a list of technologies.

Delivery

A product that serves fast

You deliver routes with their rendering strategy, data resolved where it belongs and Web Vitals measured after every release, not only in the demo.

Operation

What happens when the page changes

You set what Playwright tests, what blocks the deploy and who answers the day the CMS changes the model unannounced.

What we ask

Products in production, not portfolios

Having run a real App Router app and being able to tell which route you had to rescue, and what you decided to render on the server and why.

Judgement

SSR, SSG or client

Choosing rendering by what each URL needs: SEO, fresh data or interaction. Sometimes the honest answer is a single-route SPA, and saying so.

Boundary

Where your brief ends

You build the product layer; the visual system is the designer's and the complex API the backend's. If the project needs both, you say so at kickoff.

Frequently asked questions

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Next.js Developer or React Developer?
Same language, different responsibility: the React Developer builds UI by components; the Next.js Developer carries the whole product, with routing, server rendering and deploy. The second usually comes after years of the first.
What should you study to work with Next.js?
TypeScript is the language, React the engine. App Router and Server Components make sense once you have suffered client-side fetching: a real shipped product beats any syllabus.
Which tools are used daily?
TypeScript and App Router daily, Tailwind for styling and Playwright so nothing breaks in silence. The deploy platform (Vercel or own) is the client's call.
How much does a freelance Next.js Developer earn?
You invoice by project, and scope sets the band: routes to cover, rendering complexity and whether it includes an own API. The budget arrives before kickoff, not after.
Can Next.js projects be done remotely?
All of them: code and deploy live in the cloud and sessions with the team are remote. It is one of the most natural briefs to work on remotely.
How do you join Shakers as a Next.js Developer?
You create your profile, pass the certification process and enter the collective: only 4 per cent make it. Then you choose which products you work on.
The day to day of the craft

The route that loses SEO when it moves to the client, the bundle that swells without warning and the hydration that stutters on a low-end phone. Less landing demos, more product in production.

The market asks for the framework

1,215 active tech job postings in the UK ask for Next.js, according to Shakers market analysis (n=56,780, October 2026), almost always next to TypeScript inside product stacks with AI.

How you get there

React first, framework after: Server Components make sense once you have suffered client-side fetching. Every shipped product leaves ratings that open bigger projects.

What this role is not

Not a designer laying out mockups and not a backend exposing APIs. If your strength is the visual system, your role is designer; if server-side data logic, backend.

Roles that cross a web product

Four roles of the collective cross your path on a Next.js product, from the visual system to the service feeding the page.

Library

React Developer

The library that holds the framework up: for the component system and standalone UI, without the product layer.

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Full-stack

Full-Stack Developer

When frontend and backend are one brief: the broad profile covering the product end to end, from data to pixel.

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Broad craft

Frontend Developer

The client layer over any framework: HTML, CSS and JavaScript, not only React. The door when the brief lives outside one framework.

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APIs

Backend Developer

The APIs and data your product consumes: when server logic deserves its own service, this is the role that builds it.

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The boundaries between these roles are agreed on each project: the title does not set them.

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