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Code Health and Ownership Platform

Code Health and Ownership Platform

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2023

Vercel's Developer Experience Platform now includes Conformance for automated static analysis to detect and prevent performance, security, and code quality issues early in the development lifecycle. Code Owners provides framework-defined ownership for smart reviewer assignments and escalation protocols. A reimagined dashboard offers a unified view of project health, Conformance scores, and team responsibilities, enabling better tracking of technical debt and proactive issue resolution. These features are integrated into Vercel Spaces for enhanced monorepo and code-first views, improving collaboration and onboarding. Vercel Runs provides a unified dashboard for visualizing builds from any tool (local, CI, deployments) for easier debugging and historical log analysis.

2023

Introducing Conformance and Code Owners: Move fast, don't break things

12/5/2023

Introduces Conformance, a static analysis tool that runs checks across codebases to identify performance, security, and code health issues before production. It provides frontend-specific context, classifies issues, and assigns severity. It also introduces Code Owners, a system for defining code responsibility and ensuring proper code reviews, with features like modifiers for tailoring review processes. A new dashboard experience is also presented to surface code health insights and facilitate collaboration.

Quality software at scale with Vercel Spaces

5/3/2023

Introduces Vercel Spaces, a new evolution of Vercel's workflow for large codebases and monorepos. Key new functionalities include Conformance for automated code quality and performance issue detection (e.g., lazy loading imports, security headers), Code Owners for granular code ownership and automated review assignments, and Vercel Runs for visualizing and debugging build processes from various tools. These features are designed to integrate with existing Vercel infrastructure and are available in early private beta for Enterprise customers.