Next.js in Canberra

Next.js development for Canberra government services

A Next.js development company for Canberra agencies and their contractors. Services reached from a search engine at step three, which is a routing requirement rather than a content one.

Updated November 4, 2026

Working day overlap: One to two hours, as in Sydney, at the end of your day
Who buys here: Federal agencies and departments, the contractors delivering for them, universities, and national bodies and institutes
What that changes: Nobody browses a government service - they arrive from a search engine partway through, so every step has to work as an entry point
Local specifics: Content is held to a plain-language and accessibility standard that is assessed rather than asserted

Nobody browses a government service. They search for the thing they need and arrive wherever the search engine thinks the answer is, which is usually not the beginning.

That single observation is the most consequential design input on a Canberra project, and it is a routing requirement rather than a content one. A service designed as a journey from a landing page, with steps held inside one component and no addresses of their own, works beautifully for the one person who starts where the designer expected and fails for everybody else.

Every step is an entry point

If a step has no address, it cannot be arrived at, linked to, shared or returned to.

So each step is its own route. That has four consequences, all of them improvements. Search engines can index the step that answers a query, which is how people find services. The back button behaves the way people expect, instead of leaving the flow. A support officer can send somebody a link to the exact point they are stuck on, rather than instructions for navigating there. And progress survives a closed tab, because the address says where somebody was.

None of that is possible with a wizard held in client state, which is the default shape a React application reaches for.

Arriving in the middle has to be handled, not blocked

The honest difficulty with addressable steps is what happens when somebody enters at step three without having done one and two.

The easy answer is to block it and redirect to the start. That is simpler to build and it moves the cost onto the person least equipped to carry it - they searched for a specific thing, found it, and were sent back to a page they did not ask for with no explanation.

The better answer is that the server checks what is actually known about this person and this application, and makes a decision. If step three can be rendered with what is available, render it. If something earlier is genuinely required, go to the earliest missing step and say why. That is more work, it is a handful of conditions rather than an architecture, and it is the difference between a service that helps and one that is correct.

Shipping less JavaScript is about reach, not scores

A government service is used by people on five-year-old phones, on metered connections, on library computers and from behind networks that block things for reasons nobody can discover.

A flow that only functions after a bundle has downloaded, parsed and executed excludes precisely the people who have no alternative provider to go to. That is a different argument from performance optimisation and it has a different conclusion: the form has to work without JavaScript at all, with enhancement layered on top.

Server Actions submitted from a plain form element do exactly that - the browser posts, the server responds, the page renders. JavaScript then adds inline validation and avoids a full reload, without being the thing that makes the form function.

Commercially

Scope fixed in writing before work starts, priced per project. The country-level ground - the privacy and breach regime, hosting, invoicing - is on the Australia market page.

Invoiced by Codefacture Yazılım A.Ş. in Türkiye, in US dollars by bank transfer, with no Turkish VAT because exported services are exempt.

Frequently asked questions

Why does a Canberra government service need a URL for every step?

Because that is how people arrive. Somebody searching for "apply for x" lands on whichever page answers that query, which is frequently step three rather than the start. A flow held in one client component with no addressable steps forces them back to the beginning, and most of them leave instead. Giving each step its own address also fixes the back button, makes a step shareable with a colleague, and lets a support officer send somebody directly to the part they are stuck on.

Can a step be entered directly if earlier steps have not been completed?

It has to be handled rather than prevented, and that is the real work. Entering step three directly means the server checks what is actually known, and either renders step three with what it has or redirects to the earliest step that is still needed - with an explanation rather than a silent jump. The temptation is to block deep entry entirely, which is simpler and pushes the problem onto the person least able to solve it.

How much JavaScript should a government service ship?

As little as the interaction requires, and the reason is reach rather than performance scoring. A service is used by people on old devices, on poor connections, on library computers and behind restrictive networks, and a flow that only works once a bundle has downloaded and executed excludes exactly the people least able to go elsewhere. A form posting to the server works without any of that, and improvements layer on top rather than being load-bearing.

Can you work under a prime contractor?

That is the usual arrangement in Canberra and it works with two things written down - who holds the client relationship and what the handover consists of. The prime presents and maintains the result, so written implementation decisions are part of the delivery. The contracting entity is Codefacture Yazılım A.Ş. in Türkiye.