
Code Review Guidelines
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Reviews slow down when nobody agrees what to check, so people argue about style and rubber-stamp the rest. This template sets shared checklists for authors and reviewers, with size limits, turnaround targets and an escalation path. It focuses each review on accessibility, performance, component reuse and the styles and tests that keep a frontend healthy.
The sample is for Orchardby Software, a fictional web team that aims for pull requests under 400 changed lines, a first review within four working hours and a median turnaround of five hours. Replace the principles, targets and examples with your own, and keep each checklist short enough that people will actually use it.
Click Make a copy in Google Docs, then confirm on the Google page. The copy is saved to your own Google Drive.
Replace the three principles with the ones your team will hold each other to.
Trim each checklist to items your CI does not already enforce, then add owners.
Set your size and turnaround targets, and copy them into the pull request template.
Delete the guide page, name who breaks a tie, then share the checklist with the team.
Yes, you can copy it for nothing. Your Drive copy lets each team trim the checklist to the tools it actually runs.
No. Orchardby Software, its engineers and every target are fictional sample data. Set your own limits and turnaround times before adopting the checklist.
No. Let the linter and formatter settle style, so reviews focus on correctness, accessibility, performance and whether the design fits the codebase.
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