Principles

Our Principals

General

• Diverse participation through low barriers to entry
• Agile creation of minimum compelling product (loved by users)
• Standards based
• Aim for simplicity in UX
• Track and manage technical debt
• Comprehensive testing

Technical

• Responsive, progressively enhanced and accessible
• Modern javascript development workflow incorporating continuous deployment
• Minimal dependency on frameworks, libraries or tooling
• Client server communication is via RESTful APIs (possibly web sockets for real time)
• Component archtecture (not web components)
• Loosely coupled architecture
• Clarity > clever see this post by Kyle - yes to semicolons - see editorConfig and ESLint config