Legacy Frontend Rescue
Your frontend is old but your users know it, and nobody wants a redesign project. We make it buildable, testable, and accessible without changing what the users see.
The way this stack usually breaks
These are the problems we keep seeing, in the order we usually meet them.
A build that only works on one laptop
If the production deploy requires a specific machine and a specific mood, that is a bus factor waiting to fire. We rebuild the pipeline so anyone can ship.
jQuery plugins nobody dares remove
Ten-year-old plugins pinned to ancient versions, holding the whole app hostage. We inventory them and retire them one at a time.
Accessibility debt
Keyboard traps, missing labels, contrast failures. We fix the worst offenders while we modernize, so compliance stops being a separate project.
No version control for the frontend
A zip file named final_final_v2. We get it into Git first, because everything else is impossible without it.
A template that only deployed from one machine
A consultancy's marketing platform was built on a custom Gulp setup that only ran on the founder's laptop, with jQuery plugins from 2012 doing most of the heavy lifting. We moved it to a modern build, put the frontend in Git properly, replaced the four plugins doing actual work with small modules, and fixed the keyboard accessibility issues a client audit had flagged. The team shipped their first automated deploy two weeks in, and the founder stopped being the release process.
Questions about Legacy Frontend Rescue
What counts as a legacy frontend?
jQuery-era apps, server-rendered templates with piles of inline scripts, build tools from the Bower/Grunt years, or anything the team describes as "working but do not touch it".
Do you keep the existing look?
Yes. The brief is usually "make it maintainable without redesigning it". Pixel differences get flagged and reviewed, not shipped silently.
Can you fix accessibility without a full rebuild?
Most of the time. Labels, focus management, contrast, and ARIA are fixable in place. We usually bundle them into the modernization pass so you do not pay for the same screens twice.
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Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
Serving clients globally
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