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A curated list of high quality coding style conventions and standards.

Awesome Guidelines

A curated list of high quality coding style conventions and standards.

Contents

• Programming Languages
• Development Environment
• Platforms
• Content Management System
• Tools

Programming Languages

C

• NASA C Style
• C Coding Standard
• C Programming/Structure and style

C#

• C# Coding Conventions
• C# Style Guide
• C# Coding Standards and Naming Conventions

C++

• Google C++ Style Guide
• C++ Core Guidelines - A set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++.

Clojure

• The Clojure Style Guide - A community coding style guide for the Clojure programming language.

Common Lisp

• Style Guide
• Google Common Lisp Style Guide
• Common Lisp Style Guide

D

• The D Style - A set of style conventions for writing D programs.

Dart

• Effective Dart

Elixir

• Elixir Styleguide

Erlang

• Programming Rules and Conventions
• Erlang Coding Guidelines

F#

• The F# Component Design Guidelines

Go

• Effective Go

Haskell

• Haskell Programming guidelines

Java

• Code Conventions for the Java™ Programming Language
• Google Java Style Guide - Google's coding standards for source code in the Java™ Programming Language.
• Java Programming Style Guide

JavaScript

• JavaScript The Right Way - An easy-to-read, quick reference for JS best practices, accepted coding standards, and links around the Web.
• Google JavaScript Style Guide - This document serves as the complete definition of Google’s coding standards for source code in the JavaScript programming language.
• Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide - A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript.
• jQuery Core Style Guide
• JavaScript Style Guides And Beautifiers
• JavaScript Style Guide and Coding Conventions
• Code Conventions for the JavaScript

JSON

• Google JSON Style Guide
• JSON Style Guide

Lua

• Lua Style Guide

Markdown

• Markdown Style Guide

.NET

• .NET Standard
• .NET Secure Coding Guidelines
• .NET Naming Guidelines

Objective-C

• Objective-C Style guide - Style guide & coding conventions for Objective-C projects.
• Google Objective-C Style Guide
• NYTimes Objective-C Style Guide - The Objective-C Style Guide used by The New York Times.

Pascal

• Coding style

Perl

• perlstyle
• Perl style guide

PHP

• PHP FIG - PHP Standards Recommendations.
• PHP The Right Way - An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web.

Python

• Style Guide for Python Code
• Google Python Style Guide

R

• Google's R Style Guide
• The tidyverse style guide

Ruby

• Ruby Style Guide - Airbnb's Ruby Style Guide.
• Ruby Style Guide - A community-driven Ruby coding style guide.

Rust

• Rust Style Guide
• Rust Guidelines

Scala

• Scala Style Guide
• Databricks Scala Guide - Databricks Scala Coding Style Guide.

Shell

Swift

• API Design Guidelines
• Swift - A guide to our Swift style and conventions.
• Swift style guide
• Metova's Swift style guide

Visual Basic

• Visual Basic Concepts
• Visual Basic/Coding Standards

XML

• Google XML Document Format Style Guide

Development Environment

Shell

• Shell Style Guide

Git

• Git Style Guide
• Few Rules from Git Documentation

PowerShell

• The PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide - The Unofficial PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide.

Platforms

Android

• Android Guidelines - Architecture and code guidelines we use at ribot when developing for Android.

Apache

• Apache Developers' C Language Style Guide

API

• HAL
• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
• JSON API - Recommendations
• API Security Checklist - Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API

Arduino

• Arduino style guide
• API Style Guide for Arduino

Frontend Development

• CSS Guildelines - High-level advice and guidelines for writing sane, manageable, scalable CSS.
• Frontend Guidelines - Some HTML, CSS and JS best practices.
• Sass Guidelines - An opinionated styleguide for writing sane, maintainable and scalable Sass.
• Airbnb CSS / Sass Styleguide - A mostly reasonable approach to CSS and Sass.
• HTML + CSS Code Guide - Standards for flexible, durable, and sustainable HTML and CSS.
• U.S. Web Design Standards - Open source UI components and visual style guide for U.S. government websites.
• CoffeeScript Style Guide - A collection of best-practices and coding conventions for the CoffeeScript programming language.
• LESS Coding Guidelines
• Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
• Guidelines for Responsive Web Design

GNU

• GNU coding standards
• Making The Best Use of C - This chapter provides advice on how best to use the C language when writing GNU software.

Linux

• Linux kernel coding style

Mozilla

• Mozilla Coding Style Guide

Node.js

• npm-coding-style
• Microsoft + Node.js Guidelines
• Node.js Style Guide - A guide for styling your node.js / JavaScript code.

Other

• Keep a CHANGELOG - Don’t let your friends dump git logs into CHANGELOGs™.
• Project Guidelines - A set of best practices for JavaScript projects.
• Semantic Versioning
• Indent style
• WebAppSec/Secure Coding Guidelines

Content Management System

• WordPress Coding Standards

Tools

• JavaScript Standard Style - One JavaScript Style to Rule Them All.
• Checkstyle - tool for checking Java source code for adherence to a Code Standard or set of validation rules.
• Conventional Changelog
• semantic-release
• JavaScript Standard Style - JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer
• North - Design and development standards to align and guide your project.

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, Wahyu Kristianto has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.