Principles

Have a look through our collection of open-source principles, sorted by most recently edited

Recent Principles

Ensure UI components can be loaded separately from an application
- bug free
- front-end
- practices
Adam Craven
Try to delete the part or process.

Try to delete the feature or process to build things that are required.
- organization
- strategic
- leadership
- epic
Elon Musk
Single-Responsibility Principle

Every module, class or function in a computer program should have responsibility over a single part of that program's functionality, and it should encapsulate that part
- code
- practices
- team
- organization
- solid
Robert C. Martin
Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)

A simple solution is better than a complex one.
- code
- team
- epic
Musk requirement principle

Requirements belong to individuals, not teams
- organization
- strategic
- leadership
- epic
Elon Musk
Murphy's law

Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. So a solution is better the fewer possibilities there are for something to go wrong.
- strategic
- epic
Code an off-switch

Always plan for a way to switch your work off
- practices
- team
- medium
- feature flag
- feature toggle
- off switch
kealanparr
Reduce a problem to its lowest sensible abstraction

Framing a problem in its lowest sensible abstraction helps you understand and develop accurate solutions to a problem.
- process
Adam Craven
Learn in Public

Instead of keeping what you learn to yourself, share it as you go, for accountability, feedback, and networking.
- learning
- knowledge management
- personal growth
- individual
- epic
swyx
Leader
Open–closed principle

Software entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
- solid
- code
- practices
- team
Robert C. Martin & Bertrand Meyer