Ease Into CI Rigor With Globs
When adding CI checks, you can gradually increase rigor while easing your codebase into a better place. Maybe you want to enforce auto-formatting with Prettier as part of your frontend code quality. This is the static analysis layer described by Kent C. Dodds' “Testing Trophy.” But your codebase has never been formatted with this tool before, so none of the files meet the standard. This creates a tough choice: do you discard years of version control history and create potentially numerous merge conflicts with a huge formatting PR? ...