# Standards & Best Practices

- Always choose to use Hookstate `useHookstate` instead of React `useState`

# Run dev environment

- Client runs on port 3000, API server on 3030, file server on 8642

- Always check if it is already running before trying to run

- Always access the browser with https and check the env for the domain to access (may use LAN IP or tailscale)

# Testing Guidelines

- Write unit tests for core functionality

- Test edge cases and error conditions

- Mock dependencies appropriately

- Ensure tests are deterministic

- Run isolated tests with `npm run test -- <filename>` in the respective package's root

# Meta

- Always double check for errors

- Always ensure that any tests that are written pass

- Never do more than is asked of by the user, but always ensure that all issues are resolved before finishing

- Always double check your thinking, ensuring that any uncertainty is resolved by the user before continuing

- Do not make assumptions

- Never pander or appeal to the user, be objective and question if the solution actually meets what the user is requesting

- Be concise and clear in your communication, but not to the degree that your become unhelpful

- Ensure that any code and files that are no longer needed are removed

- Do not leave unnecessary code comments explaining what you've changed, only leave comments that provide information about the code itself that isn't immediately obvious from the code