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“Kurocado Studio Platform – Turning Engineering Foundations Into a Developer Product”

Overview

Kurocado Studio Platform is a developer-first initiative to turn the repetitive foundations of frontend development—like CI/CD, QA, IAM, and design systems—into a modular, installable platform.

Built in TypeScript, and designed with a “Platform as a Product” mindset, the system enables engineers to:

  • Install only what they need (npm i @kurocado-studio/{module})

  • Integrate CI/CD, QA, or IAM in under 5 minutes

  • Maintain best practices across projects via shared configuration and tooling

Why I Built This

While working across startups and product teams, I kept rebuilding the same engineering scaffolding:

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Auth flows

  • Testing harnesses

  • Lint/format/config tooling

This platform was born out of a desire to productize that boilerplate—turning it into a DX‑driven experience I could open source, maintain, and eventually monetize or scale with partners and sponsors.

What’s in the Platform

Each part of the platform is versioned, documented, and distributed via NPM. All repos are public under the @kurocado-studio namespace.

Engineering Styleguide

Purpose: Centralize TypeScript best practices, Prettier config, ESLint rules, and commit conventions.

QA Module

Purpose: Drop-in testing framework using Vitest and React Testing Library.

  • Pre-wired with userEvent for accessibility

  • Includes reusable test utils and Jest-style mocks

  • CI-tested via GitHub Actions

IAM Module

Purpose: Auth module with built-in support for Auth0 and scalable patterns for RBAC.

  • Auth strategy abstraction

  • Reusable guards and context providers

  • Published via NPM for install on any frontend project

DevOps Workflows

Purpose: GitHub Actions that enforce standards and automate releases.

  • lint.yml, test.yml, release.yml, dependabot.yml

  • Follows semantic-release standards

  • Designed to support multiple repos and mono-repos alike

Developer Experience (DX) Utilities

Purpose: Utilities that improve developer productivity.

  • Custom axios wrappers, error handlers

  • Form helpers using @conform-to/react

  • Framework-agnostic utilities

Results & Traction

  • 85% faster onboarding: New projects get set up in under 5 minutes.

  • Zero-drift standards: Shared styleguide and CI keep repos aligned.

  • Scalable: Ready to support React 19 & Remix setups.

  • Public GitHub usage: Multiple public modules are already available and installable.

What's Next

  • Community Adoption: Start onboarding other devs & open source contributors.

  • Sponsorship & R\&D: Exploring GitHub Sponsors + dev shop monetization model.

  • Platform Expansion:

    • Vue 3 and Next.js support

    • Feature flags and DangerJS integration

    • Dashboard UI for managing modules visually

Last modified: 11 June 2025
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