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Author

Niko Laurila

Published

October 24, 2024

Modified

August 26, 2025

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Adding and Editing pages

This article will teach you how to add pages and edit existing pages in our Wiki. This might be useful when you want to document your findings or want to add a component you…

Clean architecture

Beginning a project

Clean Architecture is a layered architectural style that organizes software into concentric circles (or layers). Each layer has a well-defined role, and all dependencies…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

Commenting & Documentation

Beginning a project

Comments are in-code annotations that clarify why or how certain logic works, without altering the program’s runtime behavior.
Documentation refers to more formal or…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

DRY

Beginning a project

DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. It’s a core software development principle stating that every piece of knowledge or logic must have a single, unambiguous…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

Filling in your ending information

Ending a project

When your participation in a project is coming to an end, you are required to fill out the ending information for the European Union. This information is used to track the…

Filling in your starting information

Beginning a project

When you begin work within Koodariverstas, or in a project that is managed by Koodariverstas, you are required to fill in your information for the European Union. Since…

Gathering and receiving feedback

Ending a project

After you have completed a project it’s time to start looking for improvements for the future! We encourage the process of collecting and learning from all feedback, this…

GitHub in Koodariverstas

Beginning a project

Koodariverstas is a part of Xamk and as a result, all code developed in Koodariverstas should be documented on our GitHub.

Guide to Taiga.io

During a project

Taiga.io is our preferred project management tool. Taiga is fully open-source and has a generous & unlimited free tier. Taiga also offers the ability to self host a taiga…

KISS

Beginning a project

KISS stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid (sometimes stated as “Keep It Simple and Straightforward”). It emphasizes that most systems—and individual components—work best when…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

Managing a workflow

During a project

This is a page about managing a workflow during a project

Modular & Reusable code

During a project

Modular code is structured into independent, self-contained modules or components. Each module focuses on a specific functionality or a coherent set of responsibilities.

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

Naming conventions

Beginning a project

Naming conventions are agreed-upon rules and styles that guide how you name variables, functions/methods, classes, files, and other entities in a codebase. They typically…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

Open-Source projects

We believe in the importance of open-source software in the future of software development. Open-source projects give everyone a chance to get involved in software…

Principles of SOLID

Beginning a project

SOLID is an acronym that represents five foundational design principles in object-oriented programming (OOP). These principles help create software that is more…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

React files and folder structure

Beginning a project

A well-organized file and folder structure is crucial for the maintainability, scalability, and readability of a React frontend project. While React itself doesn’t enforce a…

Miika Reijonen, Niko Laurila

Readability & Maintainability

During a project

Readability refers to how easy it is for a person to read and understand a piece of source code. Readable code is clear, concise, and well-organized. It should convey its…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen

Rules and responsibilities in Koodariverstas

Beginning a project

Koodariverstas has a set of standard rules for everyone working in a project through Koodariverstas. These rules are designed to keep the day to day operations running…

Simple react frontend

Beginning a project

Before you start, you need Node.js and pnpm (Performant npm) installed on your computer.

Miika Reijonen, Niko Laurila

Software development in open source projects

Open source software is developed by a community of developers that form a community around the project. Every projects community is its own ecosystem with its own rules and…

StackEdit Format guide

StackEdit is an open source browser based markdown editor. Your display is split between two different views. The panel on the left is your markdown side, where you can…

Tools

This article acts as a compiled list of different tools we use/recommend using in Koodariverstas. We use different tools for different parts of our work here in…

YAGNI

During a project

YAGNI stands for You Aren’t Gonna Need It. It is a principle often associated with Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile methodologies, which states that you should not add…

Niko Laurila, Miika Reijonen