React Development

UK-based React developers

React interface solutions for your backend

React is a javascript library used to build interactive user interfaces. It's an excellent choice for complex interfaces and mobile app development, and benefits from being well supported with a large library of components.

125m+: downloads every week
7059+: ready-made add-ons available
2013: in production since

Sources: npm weekly downloads and the npm registry, September 2026.

What we build with React

We have been building interface applications for over 25 years, and React is one of the modern tools we use.

React inside your application

Using Inertia.js, we can build React screens that sit on top of your existing application. You get the modern responsiveness users desire, while your application resides in the background doing it's thing.

Dashboards, portals and screens

This is where React works best: reporting dashboards, customer and staff portals, CRM systems, scheduling and planning tools, and tables holding large sets of data that still need to respond instantly. React has the widest choice of ready-made components for this kind of work, which means less to build from scratch and maintain.

Next.js and server-rendered React

Next.js adds server-side rendering to React, which matters when pages need to rank well in search-engines and when AI services need to read and understand your content easily. See our Next.js development services.

Taking over an existing React project

A key part of our capabilities is our ability to pick up React projects built by someone else. So whether your project is half-finished, out of date or simply unsupported, we can tell you what is worth keeping, and how to upgrade. See our website takeover and project recovery services.

When is React the right choice?

With it's current level of popularity many agencies use React for everything, but we would rather tell you if it is genuinely the right tool for you.

When the user-interface is the product

Some systems are used all day by the same people: planning tools, booking systems, operational dashboards. In those, the interface must be slick and responsive. React is built for exactly this, and remains manageable as your system grows.

A wide choice of ready-made parts

React currently enjoys one of the largest ecosystems in web development, meaning a large array of off-the-shelf components ready to use. This allows you to spend your budget on the parts specific to your business goals, rather than rebuilding the basics.

It also has the largest pool of UK developers, which matters for a system you expect to run for many years.

When a mobile app is on the roadmap

React Native lets a web application share elements across many devices and platforms. If an installable application is a realistic possibility for later, choosing React now makes it easier to develop native applications across multiple platforms.

React or Vue.js: which should you choose?

React and Vue both solve the same problems, but in different ways. Both are excellent and both are well supported by systems like Laravel. The decision rarely comes down to the technology itself, it depends on what you are building and who will look after it afterwards.

Consideration	React	Vue.js
Best suited to	Systems where the interface is the product	Adding interactivity to an existing application, step by step
Working with Laravel	Good, via Inertia.js	Better, via Inertia.js
Learning curve	Steeper	Easier to learn, fewer pitfalls
Ready-made components	The widest choice available	Good, and enough for most projects
Adding to a site you already have	Works great as a seperate interface, but require it's own build pipeline	Easily integrated in to an existing interface, screen by screen, page by page
Sharing code with a mobile app	Yes, through React Native	Limited
UK developer support	Larger	Good, strongest among Laravel developers

When we'd recommend Vue.js instead

We build React, but we would rather you had the right tool than the one we happened to be discussing. We would point you towards Vue.js if:

Small parts of your application need a facelift. You do not always need to rebuild to modernise. If most of your application is fine as it is, Vue is quicker and cheaper to introduce.
Your own developers will maintain it. Vue is closer to what they already write, with an easier learning curve, so it will cost you less in the long run.
You want to prove an idea before committing. Vue can be added with far less setup, which makes it well suited to testing something quickly.

We build both and have no reason to push you either way. See our Vue.js development page for the other side of this comparison.

How we work

Most React projects that go wrong do so because nobody decided how the new interface and the existing system would fit together. We settle that first.

Understanding The Job

What the system needs to do, who uses it, and what is already in place. We will tell you if React is more than you need.

Agreeing The Approach

Where React sits in relation to your existing application, and which system stays in charge of your data and business rules. This one decision shapes the cost and lifespan of everything that follows.

Building In Stages

We build in working pieces you can see and use, rather than disappearing for three months. You can change direction as it takes shape.

Handover & Support

Documentation, training and time with whoever maintains it next. Ongoing support is there if you want it, not because you are stuck with us.

Rescuing a React project that isn't working

React is excellent when it is chosen deliberately, and expensive when it is chosen by default. We are often called into projects where that choice was never really made, and the same problems come up again and again.

If any of these sound familiar, the problem is almost certainly not React itself:

The same rules exist in two places: permissions and validation built into both the new interface and the original system, so fixes get made in one and missed in the other
Everything takes longer than it should: simple changes touch several parts of the system, because the two halves were never given clear responsibilities
It has become slow, and patching it makes it worse: usually large tables and reports that were never built to handle the volume of data they now hold
Odd, hard-to-explain faults: pages that break intermittently, or the browser back button no longer working properly. Errors like "Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node'" are a reliable sign of this one

We fix these by making the decision that was never made, which usually means keeping the work that is sound and correcting what sits underneath it. A full rebuild is occasionally the right answer, and rarely the first one. See project recovery and website takeovers.