Once upon a time, I had an idea for a web-application. I was excited to jump in and get started building features but I wanted to be prepared for a few things:

• to incorporate contributions from other developers.
• to launch the project as it was at any stage in development with only a few commands.
• to have the launched infrastructure be simple but extensible without requiring major refactoring
• to start a new project with similar infrastructure at any time

In other words, I wanted a reusable, reproducible, shareable, testable, version-controlled solution for developing and launching a web-app so I could…