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Standardized, commonly accepted or adopted code styles, naming conventions and good practices such the good use of the global namespace and the like.

Resources in This Category

• Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide

  http://airbnb.io/javascript/
  A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript.

• Aloha Editor Guides

  http://www.alohaeditor.org/guides/style_guide.html
  Style guide for the development of the Aloha Editor.

• ASP.NET: Ajax Library: Introduction and Scope

  http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act_contribute_codingStandards.ashx
  Standards intended to be used for software written in JavaScript using the Ajax Control Toolkit.

• BBC - Future Media Standards & Guidelines

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/javascript.shtml
  JavaScript standards for bbc.co.uk website.

• Ben Alman » Multiple var statements in JavaScript, not superfluous.

  http://benalman.com/news/2012/05/multiple-var-statements-javascript/
  Observations on 'var' usage.

• Coding Style - Developer Guide

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Developer_Guide/Coding_Style#JavaScript_practices
  Explains the basic styles and patterns that are used in the Mozilla codebase.

• Douglas Crockford's: JavaScript

  http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
  Code conventions for the JavaScript programming language.

• Drupal Community Documentation

  https://drupal.org/node/172169
  JavaScript coding standards.

• Felix's Node.js Style Guide

  https://github.com/felixge/node-style-guide
  Guide for writing consistent and aesthetically pleasing node.js code.

• Google code: gmaps-utility-library-dev

  http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-utility-library-dev/wiki/JavascriptCodingConventions
  Coding conventions committed to the release project.

• JMU Computer Science Course Information

  https://users.cs.jmu.edu/bernstdh/web/common/policies/styleguide-ecmascript.php
  ECMAScript/JavaScript style guide.

• jQuery Foundation

  https://contribute.jquery.org/style-guide/js/
  JavaScript style guide.

• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

  http://www.addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/
  Explore applying both classical and modern design patterns.

• MediaWiki: Manual: Coding Conventions JavaScript

  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/JavaScript
  Describes the coding conventions for JavaScript files of the MediaWiki codebase.

• Melange - SoC

  http://code.google.com/p/soc/wiki/JavascriptStyleGuide
  Style guide for JavaScript code contributed to Melange.

• Popular Coding Convention on Github

  http://sideeffect.kr/popularconvention#javascript
  Analyses Github commits to know which convention is popular.

• Proposal: Angular Best Practice for App Structure

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XXMvReO8-Awi1EZXAXS4PzDzdNvV6pGcuaF4Q9821Es/pub
  Specific to this framework.

• ROS JavaScript Style Guide

  http://wiki.ros.org/JavaScriptStyleGuide
  Defines a style guide to be followed in writing JavaScript code for ROS.

• rwaldron/idiomatic.js

  https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js
  Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic JavaScript.

• Semicolons in JavaScript are optional

  http://mislav.net/2010/05/semicolons/
  Mislav Marohnić comments on semicolons.

• seravo/js-winning-style

  https://github.com/Seravo/js-winning-style
  Makes a consensus based on six style guides.

• sourcing.io

  http://blog.sourcing.io/mvc-style-guide
  JavaScript MVC style guide.

• SproutCore Guides

  http://guides.sproutcore.com/style_guide.html
  Described based on years of experience from SproutCore developers in writing understandable and maintainable code.

• The TreeLogic JavaScript Coding Standard

  http://treelogic-swe.com/javascript_coding_standard.html
  Oriented towards application developers. [GNU, by Chris M. Balz]

• TYPO3

  http://docs.typo3.org/neos/TYPO3NeosDocumentation/DeveloperGuide/UserInterface/JavaScriptStyleGuide.html
  JavaScript Style Guide.

• Vimeo: JavaScript Style Guide

  http://vimeo.com/86057182
  Video on JavaScript style guide based on Airbnb's.

• WordPress › JavaScript Coding Standards

  http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/javascript/
  Handbook JavaScript coding standards.

• Writing Modular JavaScript With AMD, CommonJS & ES Harmony

  http://addyosmani.com/writing-modular-js/
  Using modern synchronous and asynchronous formats.

• ②ality

  http://www.2ality.com/2013/07/meta-style-guide.html
  A meta style guide for JavaScript.

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