Building DX guardrails that teams keep using
A lightweight recipe for linting, previews, and release confidence without slowing devs down.
Great developer experience is quiet. My baseline stack for web teams:
- Type-safe everywhere: Astro + TypeScript + strict mode; generate types from content collections.
- Previewable: each PR deploys to a unique URL with visual regression checks.
- Guardrails, not gates: lint + unit + contract tests running under 2 minutes; flaky tests are treated as production bugs.
I like to bake these steps into the repo template so contributors inherit reliability on day one without extra docs.