Keep the config file out of every release you ship
A sample committed, the real one ignored, the release built by exclusion, and a web server rule that refuses to serve either.
Tagged “turnkey”
4 entries
A read-only admin mode over real data
Show a live panel to a buyer, an investor or a prospective moderator without letting them change anything, and without inventing fake data.
A migration runner that is safe to run twice
Numbered SQL files, a table of what has run, and a splitter that does not break on semicolons inside strings.
A settings table with typed access and one query per request
Everything an operator might want to change belongs in the database, not in code. This is the small layer that makes that painless.