The Antdragon
Code Manifesto
Preamble
We do not write code for computers. Computers can understand anything. We write code for the humans who have to maintain, scale, and debug it six months from now.
Most agencies ship "Spaghetti Code" because they are paid by the hour, not by the outcome. We are different. We believe that Technical Debt is a financial crime against our clients.
This is the standard every Antdragon engineer lives by.
We Test What Matters (The 'Money' Path).
100% test coverage is vanity. We don't waste time testing a landing page. We obsessively test the "Critical Path": payments, data integrity, and authentication. If it breaks the business, it gets a test. If it's just a typo, we fix it live.
Comments explain 'Why', not 'What'.
Good code explains what it is doing. Comments are reserved for explaining why a complex decision was made.
// Increment i by 1 (Useless noise)// using Bitwise shift here for performance on large datasetsSimple Scales, Clever Fails.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. We don't build for Google-scale on Day 1. We build for your scale. We write simple, readable code that is easy to delete or refactor when you pivot.
The Standard: Build for now, architect for later. No over-engineering.
No 'Magic' values.
We do not hardcode numbers or strings deep in the logic.
if (user.type == 4) (What is 4?)if (user.type == UserTypes.ADMIN)Conscious Technical Debt.
Sometimes you need to ship today. We get it. We are allowed to write "quick" code to meet a deadline, but we must label it. We trade perfection for speed intentionally, not accidentally. We flag debt and pay it down when revenue confirms the feature is worth keeping.
We treat errors as features.
An app that crashes silently is a liability. We handle errors gracefully.
try { ... } catch (e) { console.log(e) }You are not a 'Jira Ticket Mover'.
Amateurs move tickets from "To Do" to "Done" without caring about the product. Antdragon engineers act like Owners. If a ticket asks for a feature that will hurt the user experience or slow down the database, we push back. We solve the business problem, not just the ticket.