Awesome Checklists 
A curated list of checklists
Most of the links in this repository point directly to checklists in markdown format.
Inspired by the awesome list thing. Feel free to improve this list.
Table of contents
Checklists
Software Development
Checklists related to software development in all its forms.
App development
- App release checklist - A checklist to pore over before you ship that amazing app that has taken ages to complete, but you don't want to rush out in case you commit a schoolboy error that will end up making you look dumber than you are.
- Android App Security Checklist - A checklist with security considerations for designing, testing, and releasing secure Android apps.
Security
- Security checklist - A practical security guide for web developers
- API Security Checklist - Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your AP
- Rails security checklist - Community-driven Rails Security Checklist. Contribute and share your experience
- Awesome Security Checklist - If you're launching a new application and have security in mind, this is a good starting point
Web development
- Web developer checklist - The ultimate checklist for all serious web developers building modern websites.
- Web Developer Security Checklist - A checklist of important security issues you should consider when creating a web application.
- Going to production - Single Page App - A checklist for browser-based Web App without the backend
- Going to production - Server side - This is a checklist for serverside of the Web App.
- Symfony2 deployment checklist - A checklist to track the steps needed to deploy a symphony 2 project
- Project checklist - Web designer's checklist app
- Javascript project checklist - A JavaScript Project Checklist
- Web Launch Checklist - A simple website launch checklist to keep track of the most important enrichment possibilities for a website.
- PHP Package checklist - A quality checklist for open-source PHP packages.
- Frontend Checklist - A frontend checklist for websites
- Awesome Security Checklist - If you're launching a new application and have security in mind, this is a good starting point
- Building a java web apps checklist - A checklist for building Java + Angular/React web applications in the correct way
- Wordpress Themes Review Checklist - An actionable checklist to review a Wordpress theme
- Udacity course checklist - An awesome checklist of free Udacity courses for front-end developers.
Startups / side-projects
Checklists related to startups and side projects.
- Side project Marketing - A checklist of tactics for marketing your side projects
- Startup checklist - A checklist for incorporation so you can get back to building your product, fundraising, etc.
- SaaS CTO Security Checklist - This is a basic checklist that all SaaS CTOs (and anyone else) can use to harden their security.
- Styleguide Checklist - A checklist of potential things that might want to be considered when constructing a style guide for a company or project
- SaaS Startup Checklist - A checklist for SaaS startups
Checklist-like
These are additional resources that are in a format similar to a checklist (step by step plan, article with "top tips", etc) but are not really in actionable format.
Design
- UX Recipe - A checklist where you discover, choose and estimate your next UX project tools & techniques.
Event planning
- Less Obvious Checklist - A checklist for conference organisers of less obvious things
- Congress checklist - A list of things to do, to pack and tips on attending a congress
Software development
- Angular performance checklist - Cheatsheet for developing ⚡lightning⚡ fast progressive Angular applications.
- Search Engine Optimization - A helpful checklist / collection of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips and techniques.
- Docker Secure Deployment Guidelines - Deployment checklist for securely deploying Docker
- Config - Mdo's checklist for setting up a new Mac's dev environment.
- Contributing Template - A template for writing your own contributing guide.
- WebApp Checklist - Technical details that a programmer of a web application should consider before making the site public.
- SEO Checklist for Web Designers - A checklist to help web designers bring order to their SEO chaos.
- README checklist - A checklist for writing READMEs
- Website Launch Checklist - A list, in no particular order, of a process tutsplus goes through before we launch their sites.
- React ES5 to ES6 Checklist - The missing manual of upgrading ES5 React to ES6+
- Application Security checklist - Web Application security - A checklist will help security analyst/consultants to test their client's web application for security assessment
- Application Security checklist - Android pentest checklist - A checklist that will help security analyst/consultants to test their client's android application for security assessment.
- Application Security checklist - Android application hardening - A checklist that will help android developers to harden their application during the development phase.
- Strong Node - An exhaustive checklist to assist in the source code security analysis of a Node.js web service.
- Wordpress Security Checklist - A checklist of actions that you should take to increase the security of your website.
- Site launch checklist - A checklist of miscellaneous tasks to do before launching a public website.
- Fresh New Linux install - What to install after setting up your fresh new Linux distro
- React Native Checklist - From idea to app store. A recommended check list for shipping react-native apps.
- Preproduction security checklist - Some real-world examples and suggestions for general coding policies for more security
- Node.js security checklist - A checklist to help you guide through the must have security checks before your application is enabled to thousands of users/customers.
Startups / side-projects
- Marketing Checklist for indie game developers - A checklist to help indie game developers promote their games
Creating a checklist
Thanks to Github Flavoured Markdown, you can create Task lists with ease.
- [ ] Item 1
- [ ] Item 2
- [x] Item 3 (use an 'x' to put a checkmark)
- [ ] Item 4
Which looks like this once rendered:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
- Item 4
As you can see, they render as read-only checkboxes in Markdown files. People with write permissions in the repository can edit the file to select or unselect the checkboxes.
Contribute
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License
To the extent possible under law, Israel Roldan has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.