There's no shortage of "best practices" lists online, but most of them read like documentation summaries copied from the same three sources. This one comes from real projects: client sites that went live, broke, got fixed, and eventually scaled.
I'm a full-stack engineer based in Cebu. I've worked on everything from Laravel + React business platforms to mobile-adjacent web apps. The practices below are the ones we actually enforce on every project, not just the ones that sound good in a sprint planning meeting.
Structure Your Project Before You Write a Single Line
The biggest source of technical debt I've seen isn't bad code. It's unplanned code. Developers who jump straight into features without agreeing on folder structure, naming conventions, or data flow end up with inconsistency that compounds every sprint.
Before kickoff, lock in: folder structure (by feature, not by type), naming conventions, state management approach, and API contract. For React, a feature-based structure ages better:
