Workshop 4: Developer Experience Engineering & Tooling

Duration: 60 minutes You will leave with: a one-command setup flow, an honest README, and a measured improvement in onboarding time.

📊 Slides: (link coming)

📓 Logbook: record today's results in your course logbook as we go.

What we do

We audit OrbitTasks together, twice: once from a new developer's perspective, once from a platform team's. Then we fix the friction live, in session.

1. We read the README and follow it together. Note every place we get stuck.
2. We fix the setup script and the documentation together.
3. We add a Makefile (or unified npm scripts) so make setup and make dev Just Work.
4. We time onboarding before vs after.

Follow along in your own clone as we go. Anything beyond the core fixes (devcontainer, Husky, extra tooling) is optional polish, not required.

In this workshop

• Handout: audit checklist and the steps we work through together

Keep your logbook

Keep your logbook. We reuse it in Workshop 6 and Workshop 8.