Solutions

Identify the problem. Design the solution.

Understanding why most fronted systems decay, and building ecosystems that don't.

01: The Problem
02: The Approach
03: Scaling
04: What we do

01 The Bad

The hidden cost of modern complexity

The average JavaScript dependency has a shorter half-life than the team maintaining it. Every framework upgrade, build-tool migration, and abandoned package compounds into the long tail of “we can’t touch that anymore.”

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Dependency Churn

npm graphs balloon faster than teams can audit them.

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Framework Lock-In

Idioms outlive the framework that taught them.

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Build Complexity

Toolchains become a second product no one shipped.

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Knowledge Decay

Onboarding cost scales with abstraction depth.

By The Numbers

A todo list does not need a megabyte of JavaScript. The weights below are approximate — and they are conservative.

Average Library Bundle Sizes

Angular 170 KB
React + DOM 45 KB
Vue 3 34 KB
Web Components ~0 KB

Runtime, minified + gzipped

Average Component Library Sizes

Material UI 300 KB
Chakra UI 120 KB
Bootstrap 60 KB
Native CSS + WC 4 KB

Baseline import, minified + gzipped

Typical Vibe-Coded App

What you install versus what actually runs.

280 MB Node_Modules Installed
2.4 MB Javascript Shipped
40 KB Your Actual App Logic

Most of what you install never reaches a user.

Todolist Application

Material UI 152 KB
Chakra UI 88 KB
Svelte 14 KB
Vanilla WC 3 KB

Same app, built & bundled.

02 The Good

A component is just a component

The browser already ships a component model, a module system, and a styling engine. Here is a complete, reusable, encapsulated component — no build step, no runtime, no upgrade path to maintain.

counter-button.jsclass CounterButton extends HTMLElement {
  connectedCallback() {
    let count = 0;
    const button = document.createElement('button');
    button.textContent = 'Clicked 0 times';
    button.onclick = () => {
      button.textContent = `Clicked ${++count} times`;
    };
    this.append(button);
  }
}
customElements.define('counter-button', CounterButton);

Live Preview

<counter-button></counter-button> — really running on this page.

CSS custom properties are your design system

Tokens live in the cascade, not in a JavaScript bundle. Theme switching, density, and brand variants become a single declaration the browser resolves for free, exactly how the light mode on this site works.

tokens.css:root {
  --brand: #16864a;
  --space: 8px;
  --radius: 6px;
}
.card {
  padding: calc(var(--space) * 3);
  border-radius: var(--radius);
  border-top: 3px solid var(--brand);
}
/* swap one value, retheme everything */

03 Composability

Systems that repeat and intercommunicate

Each unit ships independently, speaks a shared protocol, and composes into larger surfaces without rewriting the boundaries between them.

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Self-Contained

Each module owns its styles, state, and lifecycle. No shared globals to break when one surface changes.

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Protocol-first

Custom Events and ES Modules are the contract, a boundary the browser enforces, not a framework convention.

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Composable

Mix products and surfaces into larger systems without a meta-framework holding them together.

Module <product-cart>

Module <product-search>

Module <checkout-flow>

Custom Events · ES Modules

One Shared Protocol - No Runtime Between Them.

04 Capabilities

What we build

Five engagement areas, each aimed at the same outcome: a frontend you can still understand in five years.

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Dependency Reduction

We audit your dependency tree, identify what the platform already does, and remove the rest, shrinking your supply-chain surface and your upgrade burden.

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Native-First Architecture

Web Components, ES Modules, and modern Web APIs as the foundation, so your system rides the browser's roadmap instead of fighting a framework's.

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Design Systems

Token-driven, framework-agnostic component libraries built on custom properties and the Shadow DOM, usable by any team, in any stack, indefinitely.

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Interoperable Frontend Systems

Independent surfaces that share a contract, not a runtime. Each product ships on its own cadence yet composes into one coherent ecosystem.

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Migration Strategy

A staged, low-risk path off a heavy framework, incremental, reversible, and shipped behind the same UI your users already know.

See how an engagement runs

How we work →

05 In Good Company

Who chooses not to use frontend libraries

Space X

Space X used opensource chromium browser for the UI of their Dragon shuttle including web components for its UI.

Adobe

For the web based version of photoshop, Adobe opted to use native web components and web assembly.

Frontend Masters

The people who teach frameworks for a living chose the platform for their own product — for speed and longevity.

Curious what your dependency tree is really costing?

We'll audit it and show you what the platform can take off your plate.

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