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Design Goals

This projects attempts to follow these design principles. Feedback and discussion around these are encouraged. Please feel free to submit an issue or get in touch.

Simple

  1. Someone learning web development should be able to clone this repo and start making it their own within a few minutes.
  2. Does not require reading a large amount of documentation.

Fast

  1. Follows JAMStack best practices. Everything that can be pre-rendered should be pre-rendered.
  2. Time to interact should be very fast (< 250 ms). Optimized for small bundle sizes.

Good Developer Experience

  1. Modular
    • It should be relatively straight forward to replace the content in this repository or to add a new feature.
    • Good separation of concerns. Components keep track of their own state. Props are not over-utilized.
    • Limited vertical depth (changes should be relatively self encapsulated).
    • Correct abstractions. - Webpack is complex, but developers don't need to understand how exactly webpack works to use this project.
  2. Good Documentation
    • Comments exist and have an appropriate level of detail.
    • Code should be readable.
  3. Lean
    • Projects bloat over time. Actively prune for old and dead code.
    • New features that affect the entire project should be carefully considered.
    • Buy, don't build. Don't reinvent the wheel. Use popular npm libraries when possible.
  4. Limited horizontal fragmentation
    • Linter to prevent easy PR nits & to prevent developers from wasting time thinking about code style.
    • Preferred React Style - ie (functional components & proptypes).
    • Consistent file structure based on current best practices.
    • Similar features are built similarly. Code reads like an assembly line, not a layer cake.

Stable

  1. Use Boring technologies
    • Javascript over reason or typescript. Limited ecmascript experimental features.
    • Prefer popular and well maintained npm packages.
  2. Maintainable
    • Easy setup.
    • It should be easy to deploy any version of this site.
    • Limited external dependencies (ie no missing headers for external libraries).
    • Dependencies are kept up to date (currently uses dependabot).
  3. Good tests.
  4. Stable API - This project has been forked > 100 times. It should be easy for those forks adopt changes in main.

References

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