🧠 There’s No Perfect Solution in a Live Project!

Nothing in this world works perfectly. And that’s okay.

If you write code — especially in JavaScript — you’ve probably figured that out already.

As legend has it, God created the universe in 7 days.
JavaScript was also written in about the same amount of time.
(And we’re still cleaning up the aftermath in prod 😅)

🔥 Deadlines Are Always Burning

You know the drill:
— “Feature ready by Monday.”
— “Sure. But we need to rebuild the architecture, refactor, and design a universal solution…”
— “Monday.”
— “Kostyl it is.”

⚙️ Context Always Beats Perfection

Yes, you may know “the right way”:

clean separation of business logic,
modular structure,
code purity,
atomic components.

But in real life:

a bug hits production,
the release is Friday at 7PM,
“Just add the button, stop overengineering.”

Ideal fades. Reality kicks in.

🤯 You Can’t Predict Everything

What will your project look like in a year?
There’ll be new requirements. A new designer. A new tech stack. A new PM.

Trying to design a 3-year-proof architecture sounds noble,
but usually turns out to be a waste of time.

💥 Even the Best Decisions Will Backfire

Picked Zustand? In a year it’s all Redux, Effector, or some new hot state manager.
Built custom UI components? A new designer arrives with a fresh Figma.
Crafted a universal layout? iOS drops dynamic island.

Whatever tech or tool you choose — it’ll eventually bite you.
Because the project is alive. Because the world is changing. And problems are complex.

🧩 So, What Should You Do?

Accept it.

Accept that there’s no perfect decision. There’s context, there’s team experience, and there are resources.

Your mission isn’t to build a temple of architectural purity,
but to move the product forward:

Talk through options with the team,
Do the best you can today,
Use proven patterns (and revise them),
Stay flexible.

💡 Advice from someone who survived prod on Webpack 1, IE8, and jQuery:

Enjoy the process.
Write code that’s easy to throw away.
Don’t obsess over “best practices” when “done & shipped” matters more.
Share your thoughts with the team, even if unsure.
Read my site, get ideas, and try things out.
Learn from forums, YouTube, and other projects.

⚰️ A Perfect Project = A Dead Project

The kind of project where:

everything is neatly structured,
100% test coverage,
no new tasks in backlog,
and no one ever changes anything.

Sounds beautiful. But it’s either outdated — or already shut down.

📝 Conclusion

In a real, live, constantly changing project — there is no perfect.

And that’s a good thing.

We work in reality, with real people, under pressure, and in context.
We learn, try, refactor, argue, and grow.

Don’t chase perfection — aim for sensible, sustainable solutions.
And keep evolving your project step by step.

📌 Want to see real practices, practical thinking, and healthy engineering culture?
Check out my blog, watch my YouTube, and keep the conversation going with your team.

Let’s move forward. Toward real, imperfect, but honest code.