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+# Design decisions
+
+`womm` mostly shadows the API of other test runners out there with a few quirks. This document records choices made
+along the way and the reasoning behind them.
+
+## No production dependencies
+
+I believe that the NodeJS ecosystem is too trigger-happy with `npm install` and `yarn add`. Even basic applications
+quickly end up requiring tens of packages to be shipped to users. A lot of those packages being maintained (or not) by
+the community, this means that ensuring that the downstream dependency of a project can quickly become a major concern.
+
+The best way to ensure that things are becoming stale is to depend on less, and depending on nothing than the standard
+library is best.
+
+_Some exceptions apply here. Development tooling is easier to handle, but should still be heavily vetted. For this
+reason, `womm` has a few dev-facing dependencies, but those are carefully-chosen to make sure that the cost of having
+them doesn't outweigh what they bring to the table._
+
+## No snapshot matchers
+
+Snapshot testing is rarely used well. In a lot of cases, it's a crutch used to avoid writing more precise assertions
+about software behaviour. This is especially true in browser-facing code where component snapshots clutter codebases and
+provide very little confidence that code is healthy -- instead, it measures whether it changed or evolved, and expects
+whoever _reads_ the test to validate snapshot contents manually.
+
+Snapshot matchers are not included out-of-the-box in `womm` to promote better practices around test quality and to
+remove a foot-gun from the tooling.
+
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   `rome`, but keeping it to a minimum);
 - It must be compatible with the general API exposed by Jest and the like, for familiarity;
 - It must use itself for testing.
+
+### Hot takes baked in
+
+`womm` is an opinionated implementation of Typescript/Javascript testing libraries we've all come to get used to. You
+can peek at the opinions baked into this [here](./DESIGN_DECISIONS.md).