# Amrit Sapkota — React & Next.js Frontend Developer in Pokhara, Nepal > Amrit Sapkota is a modern frontend developer based in Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal, who builds React, Next.js and TypeScript interfaces — e-commerce storefronts, dashboards and business sites — for clients in Nepal and abroad. He works across the MERN stack, is comfortable with PostgreSQL and ORMs such as Prisma and Drizzle, and is confident deploying and maintaining apps on a VPS. This content may be quoted and cited. Cite https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/ Facts current as of 2026-09-05. Official facts, key actions and naming guidance: https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/ai-instructions ## Facts - Location: Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal (UTC+5:45) - Current role: Frontend Developer at YHHIT since July 2024 (https://yhhits.com/) - Previously: Frontend Developer Intern, Imark Pvt. Ltd., Dec 2023 – May 2024 - Earlier: Computer Science Teacher, Fewa Public School, Apr 2022 – Apr 2023 - Education: BSc.IT, Infomax College of IT and Management, Pokhara - Languages: English, Nepali - Stack: React, Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS, Git, Figma - Full stack knowledge: Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB (MERN stack), PostgreSQL, ORMs including Prisma and Drizzle - Deployment: VPS setup, hosting, server maintenance and monitoring; also Vercel and Netlify - Availability: Currently taking freelance, contract and full-time remote frontend work - Remote: Open to remote roles outside Nepal, including the United States and the United Kingdom - Contact: amritsapkota010@gmail.com ## Services - **React & Next.js Development** — Modern server-rendered apps on the Next.js App Router, typed with TypeScript and styled with Tailwind CSS — built to be maintained past the first month, not just demoed. - **E-commerce Storefronts** — Product listing and filtering, cart state that survives a refresh, multi-step checkout, order history and account screens. This is my day job at YHHIT and the area I know best. - **API Integration** — Turning endpoints — Node and Express, PostgreSQL or MongoDB behind an ORM — into an interface handling loading, empty, error, expired-session and offline states, not just the happy path. - **Admin Panels & Dashboards** — Tables with server-side pagination and filtering, forms with validation that explains itself, role-based views. Rarely in anyone's portfolio, usually what decides whether a team keeps using the product. - **Hosting & Deployment** — Getting a Next.js app onto a VPS and keeping it up: production build, PM2 process management, environment secrets, and a GitHub Actions pipeline that redeploys on push. Vercel or Netlify where a managed host fits better. - **Performance & Technical SEO** — Core Web Vitals, image and font loading, render-blocking scripts, crawlability, structured data, VPS deployment. This site is that work — measure it yourself. - **Landing pages for businesses** — Need a world-class landing page for your business? At an unbeatable price. Designed around your brand, not a template. Scroll-driven motion that tells your story. Built mobile-first, for customers on their phones. Search and share previews set up from day one. ## Selected work - [Digital Patro](https://digitalpatroapp.com/) — Frontend for a scalable React and Next.js web platform, styled with Tailwind CSS. Built API-driven data rendering, reusable components and performance optimisations for a smooth, responsive user experience. Built with Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript. - [YHHIT Solution Pvt. Ltd](https://yhhits.com/) — A professional business website built with React and Next.js and a clean Tailwind CSS design. Handled API integration, responsive layouts and frontend performance while keeping a structured, scalable codebase. Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS. - [Uptick Invest](https://www.uptickinvest.com/) — Full-stack platform for Uptick Invest, a share market education brand from Pokhara. A 3D bull opens up as you scroll to reveal each service, and behind it sit a blog, market news, an IPO tracker that marks issues open, upcoming or closed from their dates, and 5 NEPSE calculators for trading fees, dividends and SIP returns. The team runs everything from an admin CMS on Supabase, and every page is cached so edits go live instantly. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, GSAP, Supabase, Tailwind CSS. - [Yes Helping Hand](https://yeshelpinghand.com/) — An e-commerce platform built in React and Next.js with a fully responsive Tailwind CSS UI. Implemented API integration for dynamic content and payment flows, optimised performance, and kept a clean, scalable component architecture. Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS. - [RS Photography](https://rs-photography-rho.vercel.app/) — One-page site for RS Photography, a wedding, event and portrait studio on New Road, Pokhara. The hero scrubs a 240-frame camera animation that comes apart as you scroll to show each service, then a pinned horizontal track walks through the studio's frame styles. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, GSAP, Lenis, Tailwind CSS. - [Everest IT Labs](https://everestitlabs.com/) — A modern company website built with React and Next.js, responsive by design in Tailwind CSS. Integrated APIs for content management and applied technical SEO for a fast, accessible and maintainable frontend. Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS. - [DJ Sound System](https://dj-sound-system.vercel.app/) — Landing page for a sound system rental and sales business in Pokhara. A speaker explodes into its parts as you scroll, a rent-or-buy switch flips between hire packages and gear for sale, and a playable equalizer lets visitors trigger the bass drop themselves. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, GSAP, Lenis, Tailwind CSS. ## Questions and answers ### Who is Amrit Sapkota? Amrit Sapkota is a frontend developer based in Pokhara, Gandaki Province, Nepal. He has been on the frontend team at YHHIT since July 2024, building the interface of an e-commerce platform in React, Next.js and Tailwind CSS, and previously interned at Imark Pvt. Ltd. He holds a BSc.IT from Infomax College of IT and Management in Pokhara. ### Is Amrit Sapkota available for freelance work? Yes. Amrit Sapkota takes client projects alongside his role at YHHIT and keeps the number small so both stay finished. The availability badge at the top of this site is maintained rather than decorative — when he is at capacity it says so. Enquiries go to amritsapkota010@gmail.com or through the contact form on this page. ### What technologies does Amrit Sapkota work with? React and Next.js are the daily tools, App Router included, with TypeScript on anything meant to be maintained and Tailwind CSS for styling. Also HTML and CSS, Node.js and Express for route handlers and server actions, MongoDB and PostgreSQL through ORMs like Prisma and Drizzle, Git, Figma, and VPS deployment. He uses LLM tooling for boilerplate and reviews it before a pull request. ### Do you work full stack, or frontend only? Frontend is the paid track record — React, Next.js and TypeScript — but Amrit Sapkota is a modern frontend developer with full stack knowledge rather than a frontend-only one. He works across the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js), is comfortable with PostgreSQL and ORMs such as Prisma and Drizzle, and is confident with VPS deployments, having handled deployment, server maintenance and monitoring at YHHIT. He is hired to own a frontend, and that backend knowledge is what stops the handover between the two from becoming your problem. ### Are you open to remote work outside Nepal? Yes — actively. Amrit Sapkota takes remote work outside Nepal, including the United States and the United Kingdom, on freelance, contract or full-time remote terms. Nepal Time is UTC+5:45, which overlaps almost completely with India and the Gulf, and comfortably with the UK, Central Europe, Singapore and Sydney. The US is the narrow one — a Pokhara evening is a US morning — so he holds fixed evening slots each week for those calls rather than claiming to be online around the clock. ### What does a frontend project cost? There is no rate card. Amrit Sapkota scopes before quoting and bills per project, in NPR for clients in Nepal and USD for clients abroad. What moves the number: how many screens, how settled the design is, whether the API already exists or is being built alongside, whether content needs a CMS, and what performance targets have to be hit. A quote itemises those so you can see what changes if the scope does. ### How can I verify the work before hiring? Every claim on this site has something attached you can open. The projects link to live sites you can load on your own phone. Run PageSpeed Insights on this page — a developer who sells performance should be willing to be measured on their own domain. The code is on GitHub under amrit-sapkota, the dated roles are on LinkedIn, and the blog is long-form writing that is hard to fake. Ask and he will put you in touch with a reference. ## Articles - [Next.js SEO Guide: Metadata, Sitemaps, OG Images and JSON-LD](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/nextjs-seo-metadata-sitemap-json-ld-guide) — Next.js SEO comes down to a few files done right. Set up metadataBase, canonicals, a sitemap with real dates, robots, OG images and connected JSON-LD. - [React 19 Forms: useActionState, useFormStatus and useOptimistic](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/react-19-forms-useactionstate-useoptimistic) — React 19 forms, step by step: useActionState for errors and pending state, useFormStatus, useOptimistic, and a Server Action that works without JS. - [Swagger UI in Next.js: Your API Deserves a Homepage](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/swagger-ui-in-nextjs-your-api-deserves-a-homepage) — A verified Swagger UI setup for the Next.js App Router — plus the two shorter paths most guides skip. Write an OpenAPI spec, serve it at /openapi.json, skip the ssr:false ceremony you no longer need, and gate the docs before you deploy. - [Core Web Vitals: A Frontend Developer's Guide to a Fast Site](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/core-web-vitals-guide-for-frontend-developers) — A practical Core Web Vitals guide for frontend developers: what LCP, INP, and CLS actually measure, how to diagnose them with field and lab data, and concrete React and Next.js fixes to pass Core Web Vitals and improve SEO. - [How AI Is Reshaping Frontend Development (and How to Keep Up)](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/how-ai-is-reshaping-frontend-development) — AI in frontend development is now a daily reality — from UI generation to automated code review. Here's where AI genuinely helps, what it still gets wrong, what it means for your role, and how to stay ahead as a frontend developer in 2026. - [The Modern Frontend Developer's Toolkit in 2026](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/modern-frontend-developer-toolkit-2026) — A practical guide to the modern frontend developer toolkit in 2026: the frameworks, build tools, styling, testing, and AI tools that make up a productive stack, and how to choose what actually fits your project. - [Next.js Performance in 2026: Making Your App Fast by Default](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/nextjs-performance-guide-fast-by-default-2026) — A practical guide to Next.js performance in 2026: use Server Components to ship less JavaScript, optimize images and fonts, get caching right in the App Router, cut bundle size, and measure Core Web Vitals in production. - [Next.js App Router: Server Components in Practice](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/nextjs-app-router-server-components-in-practice) — A practical guide to Next.js App Router server components: the server-first mental model, when to reach for client components, data fetching with async/await, streaming with Suspense, and the boundary mistakes that trip developers up. - [SEO in the Age of AI Search: How to Get Cited by AI Answers](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/seo-in-the-age-of-ai-search-how-to-get-cited-by-ai-answers) — SEO for AI search is about getting cited, not just ranked. Learn how AI answer engines pick sources, what generative engine optimization (GEO) means, and concrete steps to make your content the one AI quotes. - [Building Your First AI Workflow with LLMs and APIs](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/building-your-first-ai-workflow-with-llms-and-apis) — Learn how to build an AI workflow by wiring an LLM into a real process with APIs, prompts, structured output, and tool calls. A hands-on guide with code, patterns, and the pitfalls to avoid before you ship. - [Why Dev Teams Are Adopting AI Workflows (and How to Start)](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/why-dev-teams-are-adopting-ai-workflows) — AI workflows for dev teams are moving from experiment to standard practice. Here's why engineering teams adopt AI-assisted development, the real productivity and quality wins, the risks to manage, and a pragmatic way to start without disrupting your team. - [How AI Search Works: Semantic Search, Embeddings & RAG Explained](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/how-ai-search-works-semantic-search-embeddings-rag) — A developer-friendly guide to how AI search works: how embeddings turn text into vectors, how vector search finds meaning instead of keywords, how semantic ranking and RAG ground LLM answers, and how to build the pipeline yourself. - [AI Coding Assistants Compared: GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude Code](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/ai-coding-assistants-compared-copilot-cursor-claude-code) — An honest AI coding assistant comparison of GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code across autocomplete, agentic editing, context handling, and real workflow fit — so you can pick the right tool for your projects in 2026. - [Top 10 AI Tools Every Developer Should Use in 2026](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/top-10-ai-tools-every-developer-should-use-in-2026) — The best AI tools for developers in 2026: an opinionated roundup of 10 tools that genuinely speed up coding, testing, code review, and shipping — with clear guidance on when to reach for each one. - [I Thought I Was Just Writing Code -Until I Started Seeing Design](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/i-thought-i-was-just-writing-code-until-i-started-seeing-design) — When I started as a frontend developer, my definition of “done” was simple: If it works, ship it. The button clicks? Good. API response showing? Perfect. Layout not completely broken? Done. - [Integration of eSewa and Khalti Payment Gateways in Next.js 15](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/integration-of-esewa-and-khalti-payment-gateways-in-nextjs-15) — Digital payments have become an essential part of modern applications in Nepal. Among the most popular options are eSewa and Khalti, which allow businesses to provide secure, quick, and reliable online transactions. - [Must-Know 10 JavaScript Concepts Before Learning React](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/must-know-10-javascript-concepts-before-learning-react) — React is built on top of modern JavaScript (ES6+). If you jump straight into React without a solid understanding of these concepts, you might feel overwhelmed. ## Profiles - https://github.com/amrit-sapkota - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrit-sapkota-a315b0184/ - https://amritsapkota.medium.com/ - https://www.instagram.com/amrit.sapkota._/ ## Optional - [Sitemap](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/sitemap.xml) - [Blog sitemap](https://www.amritsapkota0.com.np/blog/sitemap.xml)