In late 2022, I joined a struggling team as a part-time consultant.

Here’s how we turned things around:

✅ Wrote simple @playwrightweb tests to assure evert page loads successfully.

✅ Configured CI to run lint, cspell, knip, build, and tests.

✅ Configured PRs to block merge until the CI build passes.

✅ Switched to pnpm to dramatically speed up builds.

✅ Implemented feature flags so we can merge often and continuously integrate even when features aren’t done yet.

✅ Reduced the number of environments from 6 to 3.

✅ Configured @ApiMocking to support coding and testing against mocks.

✅ Created custom dev tools to accelerate development. These tools support instantly switching users, changing mock data, and toggling settings.

✅ Unifying UI, logic, and API repos into a monorepo so the 3 are continuously integrated and checked via a single CI build.

The transformation has been amazing.

@playwrightweb Oops, typo. "evert page" = "every page"

@playwrightweb Here's the problems this solved:

Slow path to prod
Frequent production bugs
High overhead of maintaining many environments
Slow integration between UI/logic/API
Lack of communication between developers
Lack of automation made quality checks time-consuming and error prone

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