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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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Join ShakersA 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.
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Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
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Shakers is hiring infrastructure: the project arrives with the repository, the CMS or the data and its owner, not with a list of technologies.
You deliver routes with their rendering strategy, data resolved where it belongs and Web Vitals measured after every release, not only in the demo.
You set what Playwright tests, what blocks the deploy and who answers the day the CMS changes the model unannounced.
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.
Choosing rendering by what each URL needs: SEO, fresh data or interaction. Sometimes the honest answer is a single-route SPA, and saying so.
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.
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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.
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.
React first, framework after: Server Components make sense once you have suffered client-side fetching. Every shipped product leaves ratings that open bigger projects.
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.
Four roles of the collective cross your path on a Next.js product, from the visual system to the service feeding the page.
The library that holds the framework up: for the component system and standalone UI, without the product layer.
When frontend and backend are one brief: the broad profile covering the product end to end, from data to pixel.
The client layer over any framework: HTML, CSS and JavaScript, not only React. The door when the brief lives outside one framework.
The APIs and data your product consumes: when server logic deserves its own service, this is the role that builds it.
The boundaries between these roles are agreed on each project: the title does not set them.
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