backend-standards

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a comprehensive, framework-agnostic set of best practices for backend development, ensuring consistency, maintainability, and robustness across different technologies.

Core Features & Use Cases

• API Design: Enforces RESTful conventions, consistent status codes, and standardized error responses.
• Database Management: Dictates best practices for timestamps, foreign keys, indexing, and naming conventions.
• Migrations: Outlines requirements for reversible, focused, and zero-downtime database migrations.
• Query Optimization: Guides on preventing N+1 queries, effective caching, and efficient query writing.
• Use Case: A new backend developer joins a team using multiple frameworks. This Skill serves as their primary guide to understand and implement the team's established backend quality standards, regardless of the specific framework in use.

Quick Start

Review the API design principles for creating a new RESTful endpoint.