Episode 165: Setting up Enterprise Frontend for Success

Recording date: Dec 16, 2021

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Alex Okrushko @alexokrushko

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

• 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

• 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.