vunb/front-end-checklist

The Front-End Checklist is a comprehensive to-do list for anyone preparing to launch a website. Instead of hunting across the internet for best practices, you get a single, organized reference covering everything you should verify before making your site public. It covers ten major areas: Head (metadata), HTML, Webfonts, CSS, Images, JavaScript, Security, Performance, Accessibility, and SEO. Each checklist item is rated by importance using three levels. High-priority items are things you absolutely must do, like declaring a character encoding or setting a page title, because skipping them can cause visible problems or hurt your search rankings. Medium-priority items are strongly recommended but can be skipped in rare cases. Low-priority items are nice-to-haves that depend on your specific project, like adding an RSS feed for a blog. Items also come with links to documentation, testing tools, and videos so you can learn how to actually complete each step. This resource is aimed at front-end developers, designers, project managers, or really anyone responsible for shipping a website. A freelance developer could use it as a final review pass before handing off a client project, ensuring nothing critical was missed. A startup founder managing their own site could use it to verify their SEO basics are covered. A technical project manager could even share it with a team as a shared definition of "done" before a launch. The checklist is built from the combined experience of many front-end developers, pulling in knowledge from other open-source checklists. It is available as both a GitHub repository and a standalone website, and contributors are welcome to suggest additions. The project is released to the public domain, meaning anyone can use, modify, or distribute it freely.