April 8, 2021

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Better Code, Faster - Tools, Processes, and Automation

Learn some of our tools and processes that you can adopt to empower your team to write quality code swiftly.

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Learn how to write better code with our favorite software development tools and automation that you can adopt to empower you and your team. Upgrading good code to a great code can often be a challenging task, especially within large, complex systems, but there are tools and processes to create durable products quickly to gather feedback!

Speed will always be your competitive advantage. It's not about getting stuff done, it's about choosing to get the right stuff done, and minimizing time spent on everything else. 🙌

In this panel discussion, members of the Headway Development team will share some of our tools and processes that you can adopt to empower your team to write quality code swiftly.

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Meet the panelists

Tim Gremore, Development Lead

Chris Held, Senior Developer

Kelsey Leftwich, Senior Developer

Maria Liberovsky, Developer

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Segments:

‍00:00 - Introduction

‍06:44 - Agenda for Discussion

‍08:41 - Establishing Code Conventions & Automating Enforcement

‍17:39 - Accessibility Testing‍

21:18 - Color Blind Tools for Testing

‍22:21 - Staying on the Same Page with Other Teams

‍29:43 - Modeling Language for Concepts?

‍36:18 - Design Spec Documentation and Handoffs

‍40:59 - Eliminating Boilerplate

‍46:26 - Catching Bugs

‍54:45 - Upcoming Events

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Resources & notes

Establishing code conventions and automating enforcement

‍Eslint

Prettier

Husky

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Accessibility testing

axe DevTools - Web Accessibility Testing

Git Hub - dequelabs/axe-core

Deque Color Contrast Analyzer

Documenting code conventions

Format on save

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Staying on the same page with other teams‍

Deploy previews

Design Systems

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Modeling Ideas

‍Miro

Whimsical‍

‍Excalidraw

Catching bugs

Static Typing

Testing

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Eliminating Boilerplate

Prototyping tools for backend‍

‍Hasura

Airtable

Fauna

AWS Amplify

Contact Forms with Netlify

Netlify Functions

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Other resources mentioned

Blog - Write Tests

Typed JavaScript at Any Scale

Speed will always be your competitive advantage. It's not about getting stuff done, it's about choosing to get the right stuff done, and minimizing time spent on everything else. 🙌

In this panel discussion, members of the Headway Development team will share some of our tools and processes that you can adopt to empower your team to write quality code swiftly.

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