Web Development Best Practices That Actually Matter in Production (opens in new tab)

There's no shortage of "best practices" lists online, but most of them read like documentation summaries copied from the same three sources. This one comes from real projects: client sites that went live, broke, got fixed, and eventually scaled. I'm a full-stack engineer based in Cebu. I've worked on everything from Laravel + React business platforms to mobile-adjacent web apps. The practices below are the ones we actually enforce on every project, not just the ones that sound good in a sprin...