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About this service
Build scalable, maintainable software with our experienced engineering teams. We deliver high-quality code and best practices that help your product succeed.
Go to serviceFrontend engineering
Frontends users love. Code teams love to work with.
We modernise legacy frontends, clean up design systems and close the gap between what design imagined and what ships.
Clean component architecture
Accessible by default
Performance that ships
Your frontend shouldn't be dragging the team down
Frontends have a way of becoming tangled. A quick CSS fix that never got cleaned up, state managed in three different places, and before long it's dragging the whole team down. The more complex, the more we're in our element.
We untangle the mess
Codebases where one change breaks something across the entire app, pages that take forever to load, the endless reality of making things work across browsers and devices. We bring sense to messy component libraries, sort out state management, and build interfaces that actually behave the way you'd expect.
Alongside your engineers
By getting stuck in alongside your engineers, we don't just fix things and leave. We pair, review, and share knowledge so your team can keep things moving once we've gone. We've done it plenty of times, and we'd be happy to help you do the same.
Concrete outcomes, not just code
We focus on delivering measurable improvements across four key areas that matter most to your product and team.
Performance & architecture
We get your frontend in shape. The right patterns, proper type safety, modern tooling that speeds you up, not slows you down. Nothing fancy for the sake of it.
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Ready to make your frontend fast and future-proof?
User experience
Interfaces that work everywhere, for everyone. Phones, tablets, desktops, screen readers. We don't play favourites. No user left behind.
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Ready to talk?
Want an interface that works beautifully for every user?
Developer experience
Code your team can trust. We set up clear patterns, write documentation that's actually useful, and put testing in place that catches issues early.
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Looking to make your frontend codebase easier to trust?
Team elevation
Shipping is just part of it. We pair, review, and write documentation that actually helps. The goal is always the same: your team doesn't need us anymore.
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Ready to leave your team stronger than you found them?
Our approach
“It's rarely a quick fix, but we know how to untangle it. We leave your team with code they can trust and patterns they can follow.”
Why companies call us in
State everywhere? One change breaking half the app? Pages that take forever to load? You're not alone. We've helped teams untangle the messiest frontends.
“Our frontend is a mess and nobody wants to touch it.”
“We’re afraid AI-generated code is quietly piling up technical debt.”
“At publiq, we value sustainable and stable software and that is exactly what the engineers of madewithlove provide. At the very start of every project, we involve the madewithlove team (with product m…”
Sven Houtmeyers, Technical Lead (CTO) at Publiq
“We need to scale now.”
“We’re stuck on an old framework version and can’t upgrade.”
“We made the decision to onboard a madewithlove senior front-end engineer very early in our journey. This has been transformational: there was an immediate alignment on the mindset, on understanding wh…”
Thomas-Louis de Lophem, CEO at MinersAI
“We’re scaling faster than our processes.”
“Our company is scaling fast, but the software isn’t.”
Happy clients
We work with companies that want to get their frontend right. Here are examples of how our approach translated into real results.
MinersAI
From AI prototype to a scalable mineral intelligence platform
We helped MinersAI build their SaaS platform from the ground up, providing frontend engineering, CTO-in-residence leadership, and AI & data expertise to take them from a research-first team to a platform used by some of the largest government organisations and mining companies worldwide.
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We help our clients succeed
You will not see companies like Amazon among our past clients. You will, however, see the names that will soon rock the SaaS world because we helped them predict risks and avoid failure.
“Madewithlove has been a fantastic partner for over two years. They helped us scale our team and build a future-proof platform that grows with our business. Their expertise in scalable architecture, pragmatic approach and overall professionalism has been key to our success…” Read more
Arnout Van de Meulebroucke
CTO, Phished
“Together with madewithlove, we created a high standard of quality which includes consistent, readable, well-documented, and tested code which we would like to keep for years.”
Sven Houtmeyers
Technical Lead (CTO), Publiq
“After auditing our product, madewithlove made the bold recommendation to rebuild our platform from scratch. This allowed us to bring much-needed security upgrades and modern architectures to our previous software tool that was very outdated. They also provided structure and…” Read more
Jef Daniels
CEO, Impact Us Today
FROM 190+ SAAS AUDITS
89% ship without automated testing
Manual QA dominates at every stage, seed to M&A.
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Our latest thinking on frontend engineering, performance optimisation, and building better user experiences.
We can help create your frontend
Whether your frontend is slowing you down, holding back new features, or just needs a refresh. We're ready to dig in.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about working with our frontend engineers.
We bring deep expertise across the modern frontend ecosystem including React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Flutter, and React Native. We adapt to your existing stack rather than imposing our preferences.
Absolutely. We specialise in brownfield development, improving what already exists. We excel at refactoring legacy codebases, untangling complex systems, and modernising architectures while your application continues running in production.
We start by profiling your application to identify actual bottlenecks. Then we implement targeted optimisations like code splitting, lazy loading, memoization, and proper state management patterns. We focus on measurable improvements, not theoretical perfection.
Yes. We help establish, maintain, and scale design systems that ensure consistency across your application. We work with modern styling solutions including Tailwind CSS, CSS Modules, Styled Components, and more.
Accessibility is built into our development process. We follow WCAG guidelines, use semantic HTML, implement proper ARIA attributes, and test with assistive technologies to ensure your application works for all users.
We establish comprehensive testing strategies using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Vitest, and Testing Library. We implement unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to catch issues before they reach production.
Knowledge transfer is core to our approach. Through pair programming, collaborative code reviews, and comprehensive documentation, we ensure your team gains the skills and confidence to continue building after we're gone.
Yes. We work with React Native and Flutter to build cross-platform mobile applications, or help modernise existing mobile apps that are stuck on outdated framework versions.
Most engagements last between 3 and 12 months depending on the scope. We stay long enough to make meaningful improvements and ensure your team is confident to continue independently.
We're technology-agnostic, focusing on solving your problems rather than pushing our preferred tools. We specialise in improving existing codebases rather than pushing for rewrites. And we plan our exit from day one, where success means your team's independence, not dependence.