The technologies behind every build.
Platform-appropriate choices, not a house default — frontend frameworks, CMS, commerce, cloud and AI, matched to what the project actually needs.
Wave18 builds on a deliberately narrow, well-understood technology stack rather than chasing every new framework: Astro and Next.js with React and Tailwind CSS on the frontend, TypeScript throughout; WordPress, Sanity, Contentful and Strapi for content management, chosen by how a client's team actually wants to edit content; Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento and Medusa for eCommerce, matched to catalogue size and complexity; AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel and Cloudflare for hosting and infrastructure; and OpenAI, Claude, TensorFlow and LangChain for AI features, integrated securely rather than bolted on. Every choice is platform-appropriate: a static marketing site doesn't need the same stack as a headless commerce platform, and a client's existing skills and compliance requirements shape the recommendation as much as the technology itself. The result is a smaller, more accountable set of tools that the whole team knows well — not a portfolio of logos assembled to look impressive.
Frontend & Frameworks
Astro
Static-first framework for content-heavy, high-performance sites.
Next.js
React framework for web applications and dashboards.
React
Component-based UI development for complex interfaces.
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first styling for consistent, fast-to-build design systems.
TypeScript
Type-safe JavaScript across the whole stack, from build to runtime.
Content Management
WordPress
The world's most widely used CMS, managed securely when it's the right fit.
Sanity
Structured-content headless CMS for teams that need flexible modelling.
Contentful
Enterprise headless CMS for multi-market, multi-team content operations.
Strapi
Open-source headless CMS for teams that want full control of their content API.
eCommerce Platforms
Shopify
Leading hosted commerce platform, from single stores to Shopify Plus.
WooCommerce
WordPress-native commerce for content and catalogue in one system.
Magento
Enterprise commerce for complex catalogues, currencies and B2B pricing.
Medusa
Open-source headless commerce engine for fully custom storefronts.
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS
Compute, storage and managed services for infrastructure at any scale.
Azure
Microsoft's cloud platform, standard for teams already on Microsoft 365.
Google Cloud
Google's cloud platform, strong for data and machine-learning workloads.
Vercel
Frontend cloud built for fast, globally distributed Astro and Next.js deploys.
Cloudflare
Global CDN, DNS and security layer in front of every build.
AI & Machine Learning
OpenAI
GPT models and APIs for chat, generation and reasoning features.
Claude
Anthropic's assistant models, used for reasoning-heavy and long-context tasks.
TensorFlow
Machine-learning framework for custom model training and inference.
LangChain
Framework for chaining LLM calls into reliable, multi-step workflows.