Starlight

Overview

Starlight is a production template we designed and built for Ultra, a website-builder platform. Ultra's clients use Starlight as the foundation for their own sites, so the bar was double: it had to look bespoke, and it had to stay fast no matter what content its future owners load into it.

The challenge

Templates usually trade performance for flexibility. Starlight had to keep both: a fully dynamic site, editable through Ultra's backend, that still performs like a static build. And because a template ships to many end clients, any architectural shortcut would be multiplied across every site built on it.

What we built

Starting from a meticulously crafted Figma design, we developed the template in Next.js and wired it into Ultra's backend - choosing the rendering strategy route by route, static where content is stable and dynamic where the builder needs live data. Design fidelity was treated as a requirement, not a nice-to-have: what was designed is what shipped, down to the details.

The results

• Lighthouse score of 100 on the production build
• LCP under 1.5 seconds
  • a fully dynamic site with static-like loading
• Two weeks from kickoff to delivery, including backend integration
• Shipped as a foundation for Ultra's clients' websites

We cite Starlight on our Next.js development page because it makes the point better than any pitch: dynamic doesn't have to mean slow. Want the same for your product?