Web Rush

Episode 165: Setting up Enterprise Frontend for Success

Episode Summary

Alex Okrushko talks with us about his recommended 9 ways to setting app development up for front end success, including monorepos, feature flagging, trunk based development, better PRs, automatic help, testing, feature plans, and daily releases.

Episode Notes

Recording date: Dec 16, 2021

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Alex Okrushko @alexokrushko

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Guide to Monorepos for Front End Code
• Feature flags make development faster and safer
• Trunk-based development
• Building with FeatureFlags
• The 7 D’s of Development video
• Conniption definition (: a fit of rage, hysteria, or alarm)
• TypeScript style guide
• TypeScript style guide
• Code Review guidelines
• Pull Request Guidelines
• ESLint
• Prettier
• Brian Holt on Web Rush: Scaling React: Episode 1
• Brian Holt on Twitter
• FrontEnd Testing best practices
• Daily Release schedules
• Firebase

Timejumps

• 00:56 Guest introduction
• 03:18 What's the benefit to setting apps up for front end success?
• 08:31 Team communication
• 09:39 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 10:43 Don't silo your teams
• 13:21 Why do I need monorepos?
• 16:49 Why is feature flagging important?
• 19:17 How do you start creating feature flags?
• 23:01 What is trunk based development?
• 32:09 Setting expectations for PRs
• 34:45 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 35:47 What is automatic help?
• 37:42 Testing and quality
• 39:34 Are there different areas of an app that need more testing?
• 42:34 New feature plans
• 45:59 Daily releases

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.