YAGI – What are the non-obvious things should you add to a project?

Question

We all know about YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it) as a warning to developers not to overbuild their projects. Well, what are those non-obvious things that you should add that are probably not much additional effort but will be very helpful down the road.

netvarun · Accepted Answer

There was an interesting post a couple of weeks back with a bunch of examples of things you *probably* might need. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27703299

nivertech · Answer

See Preemptive Pluralization [1][1] https://www.swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization/

YAGI – What are the non-obvious things should you add to a project?

We all know about YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it) as a warning to developers not to overbuild their projects. Well, what are those non-obvious things that you should add that are probably not much additional effort but will be very helpful down the road.

There was an interesting post a couple of weeks back with a bunch of examples of things you probably might need. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27703299

See Preemptive Pluralization [1]
[1] https://www.swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization/