Web & App development - Brighton, UK
Brighton-based Web App Developers, Software Engineers and Information System Architects
Codeface designs, builds, supports and maintains web-based systems for a wide range of applications - from Health Research to Crime Reduction to Smart Homes.
We've been providing outstanding web and app development services since 1999. We have built successful websites for many happy clients ranging from small voluntary sector organisations to the BBC.
We use tried and tested open-source technologies like Ruby on Rails and Flutter.
We're based in the wonderful city of Brighton & Hove, just an hour's train ride from London.
Our services
🚀 Design, implementation and launch of a brand new app
Bring us your ideas or business requirements and we can create your bespoke web app or native mobile app from the ground up. It'll be fast, maintainable, and ready to scale. We'll take care of the entire process from design through to final testing and launch.
🔧 Upgrades & Modernisation
We'll bring your existing Rails or Flutter app up to date - improving performance, security, and reliability.
🩺 App Rescue & Recovery
If your Rails or Flutter project is stuck, broken, or abandoned, we'll get it back on track.
🔁 Support, Maintenance and Fully managed Hosting
We can take care of everything that's needed to ensure your app runs smoothly for the long term.
Latest articles
1st October 2025
Developing native mobile apps for iOS and Android using Flutter
2nd July 2024
Taming Rails: Get your unruly Ruby on Rails project back in shape
14th June 2024
Upgrading Ruby on Rails web applications
14th December 2010
Outsourced Refactoring
26th November 2010
Test-driven web development
From the Codeface
Tech notes on problems we've solved, and interesting web tools and technologies we've explored recently.
4th November 2025
Uploading Ruby on Rails test suite screenshots from Bitbucket Pipelines to Slack.
20th June 2025
Gradually introduing Rubocop into an established Rails project with a large number of existing violations.
30th April 2025
Using Ruby and JMAP to do some basic email archiving.
24th January 2025
Homebrew or Docker - what's the quickest, easiest, best way to get the PostgreSQL command line client (psql) on my Mac?.
1st November 2024
A quick and dirty way to find out if a given gem is used in production, without checking all the individual dependencies.
24th October 2024
Heroku does not support Git client version git/2.39.3 (Apple Git-146) - now you can simply update 'Command Line Tools for XCode' to fix this.
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31st August 2024
Different favicon designs for browser tabs and search results.
26th May 2024
A custom domain name in front of ECR
18th April 2024
Using Bitbucket Pipelines to run a spell-check
