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James Thompson
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Don't Roll Your Own

Use a modern build environment to scaffold (bootstrap) your new projects.

Project scaffolding

When starting a new project, you can roll-your-own application build process, or start with where the general tech community has migrated towards. I hesitate to use the word "standard" build process as it has an overloaded, heavy-handed connotation.

standards-xkcd

Instead of "standard", I prefer the term "adopted". The open-source community has adopted modern build environment practices. Don't get me wrong, we need web standards, our beloved ECMA-262 maintained by TC39, IETF RFC 9293 - Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and many others. Standards bodies help pave the path for interoperability across industries.

Tomorrow, I will provide my chosen build environment for the hackathon.


Comic "Standards" by xkcd

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash

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