Software Developer Workflow 2021 (MERN Stack)

Useful Tools and Frameworks

ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript linter

Jest · 🃏 Delightful JavaScript Testing

React Testing Library · Testing Library

Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework

Chai

TypeScript - JavaScript that scales.

TSLint

MERN Tech Stacks

Mongo, Express, React/React Router, Node (create-react-app)

Mongo, Express, Next, Node

Mongo, Express, Gatsby, Node

• For small projects use React Hooks
• For small to medium projects use the Context API
• For medium to large projects use Redux or GraphQL

Step 1: Project Setup

1. Create a Git Repo for the project
2. Create a Kanban Board Project using GitHub Projects, Notion etc...

Design the App (Optional if you have a design already there is no need)

Using a design tool like Adobe XD, Sketch, InVison Studio, Figma etc...

Step 2: Build App

1. Decide on the Technical Stack and folder structure (React, Redux, Next, Gatsby, Node.js, MongoDB, GraphQL etc...)
2. Decide on the CSS Layout Structure for the front end (CSS Grid , Flexbox, CSS framework (Bootstrap, Bulma, Tailwind etc...))

Use the Peacock Visual Studio Code extension to set the colour theme for the project. (Optional)

CSS: styled components or Sass/Stylus/CSS

Linting: ESLint

TDD/BDD: Jest and React Testing Library (Front-End) Mocha and Chai (Back-End)

Code Formatting: Prettier

TypeScript (Optional if you want to have better error checking for your code)

Linting: ESLint

Type Checking: TypeScript

Step 3: CI/CD

Gitflow Workflow | Atlassian Git Tutorial

1. Use Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment

CI/CD: GIT, GitLab, BitBucket, CircleCI, Travis CI, Jenkins, Heroku, Netlify, Now, Docker