We join a fair number of projects, and we often help teams bring their project up to our standard. This means bringing a lot of the same small pieces from project to project.

In the latest episode of the No Compromises podcast, we rethink our “project standard” repo. Instead of a full Laravel skeleton, we propose a composable library of tool-specific, versioned configs (PHPUnit, Docker, etc.).

We walk through the benefits for greenfield and legacy work, open questions about test organization, and how this approach scales as tools evolve.

• (00:00) - Why we keep our tooling current