Imran Khan,

• I create a repo for it. That gives me kind of freedom and confidence while coding. Now it's a habit.
• Then fix the dev and prod mode build of the app. Make sure it works in both the cases.
• Do setup my CI/CD and confirm it is working fine.. as I push changes, things are reflecting correctly till the point to access the app on a URL beyond localhost.
• At this stage, I break down the known tasks, put them in a tracking tool. I use github 'projects' to list them down and execute one by one in logical manner. I do create branches for all the logical features/bug-fixes.

The first step has always been to git init if the project doesn't have it already

The first thing I do is setup the build pipeline. I am in favor of Pug/HBS/SCSS/TS on WebPack lately, using some custom operations in a make.js file. Since I am working on standardizing my build steps and I usually have the same needs for all my web projects, it's mostly copying boilerplate and adding devDependencies, pulling in the steps I need.