Part 10: Best Practices - The Wisdom of Experience
Best practices are the scars of those who went before us.
Best practices are the scars of those who went before us.
Software development is a series of moments when you transition from denial to acceptance. Let's catalog the disasters.
Your build succeeded. Your deployment completed. But do you trust that everything actually works?
Building something and shipping something are two entirely different skills.
We've spent six chapters preparing to integrate a React app into a documentation framework, and we haven't written a single line of documentation. Time to cook.
Your React components—freestanding, independent—are about to become Docusaurus pages.
Docusaurus has opinions about styling. Tailwind CSS has opinions about styling. Getting these two opinionated systems to coexist peacefully requires diplomacy.
Restructuring a codebase is the software equivalent of moving chaos. You know where things should go. Getting them there without breaking everything is the challenge.
In software, installation is like laying the foundation of a building. If you get it wrong, everything built on top of it will eventually crack.
Every military strategist worth their salt will tell you the same thing: the battle is won or lost before the first shot is fired. Planning isn't the boring part before the action begins—planning is the action.