Masochist template for web development

This project includes a sadistic CI workflow craeted with Github Actions that runs against every PR.

Fork this project or use it as a template for your new project.

This template includes a simple web server that complies to all nags from the sadistic CI workflow. To start it up, install dependencies with npm install and run:

npm start

This starts a simple node.js webserver that serves files from /public folder and listens for the port 8000 (no dependencies!).

After the server has started, you can navigate to http://localhost:8000 and see the site in action.

This project aims to have all every strict policy to make modern website development hard. The work is still in progress, but currently Github Actions makes sure that on all pull requests:

• Lighthouse test gives 100/100 points on all tests
• Strict ESLint and Prettier rules are fully obliged to

There's also dependabot configuration which ensures that:

• NPM packages are always using latest versions of the packages
• No vulnerable NPM packages are installed in the project

Have you ever caught yourself making excuses when the client asks why the website takes five seconds to load? When the website has been filled with tons of images, trackers, lightbox plugins, slow APIs and other junk, it's much too late to start asking why nobody brought this stuff up earlier.

It all starts with a bad foundations: Maybe we didnt't install any linters, do any tests, or maybe using that bloated plugin was just a quick fix that we never got to do better.

Using Masochist web development template right from the start of a project is your guard against slowly drifting into code-rotten junkland with your project. By using the most strict and sadistic CI workflow to always check your code before merging forces you to be diciplined with your code.

You can use Maso as a leverage during initial implementation phase; it's much harder for your boss/designer/client to argue with a machine than it is with a developer.

Lighthouse test says adding ten images to the front page carousel makes your site slow (surprise).

Use this as a leverage: It's suddenly not just the developer's problem — you can bounce back that information and include both business and design to work out the best way to keep the site running fast and smooth. You just can't add all those images. The computer says no.

NPM reports a vulnerability in your web server's version, so Dependabot automatically creates a new pull request to fix the issue. Leverage this and treat Dependabot as a productive member of your team.

The concept of Masochist web development relates familiarly to an older concept of Extreme Programming: How do we make sure we do code reviews? Let's make it impossible not to do them (pair programming). How do we make sure we do automated tests for our code? Let's make it impossible to not do tests (test-driven development).

While hooking up a strict, sadistic CI workflow may sound like a big up-front overhead, the concept is pretty similar to TDD or pair programming; we make it very hard not to do great code and fast websites.

Delaying problems to when client sees them and complains, now that's even more masochistic.

Github Actions take some configurations that you can tweak if necessary.

Type: Number
Default: 5000

Your web server should always listen for port defined by environment vairable PORT. This can be changed by probiding an alternative port as PORT environment variable to Lighthouse action.

This is an evolving project, and new feature requests and coding help is greatly appreciated. If you think you could make the saidstic CI workflow even more sadistic, just open an issue and describe how! Pull requests are also warmly welcome.

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.