Coding Guidelines

Style Guides

• JavaScript
• React
• CSS-in-JavaScript
• CSS & Sass

Resources

Learning ES6+

• Latest ECMA spec
• ExploringJS
• ES6 Compatibility Table
• Comprehensive Overview of ES6 Features

Read This

• Standard ECMA-262

Tools

• Code Style Linters
  • ESlint - Airbnb Style .eslintrc
  • JSHint - Airbnb Style .jshintrc
• Neutrino Preset - @neutrinojs/airbnb

Other Style Guides

• Google JavaScript Style Guide
• Google JavaScript Style Guide (Old)
• jQuery Core Style Guidelines
• Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript
• StandardJS

Other Styles

• Naming this in nested functions - Christian Johansen
• Conditional Callbacks - Ross Allen
• Popular JavaScript Coding Conventions on GitHub - JeongHoon Byun
• Multiple var statements in JavaScript, not superfluous - Ben Alman

Further Reading

• Understanding JavaScript Closures - Angus Croll
• Basic JavaScript for the impatient programmer - Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• You Might Not Need jQuery - Zack Bloom & Adam Schwartz
• ES6 Features - Luke Hoban
• Frontend Guidelines - Benjamin De Cock

Books

• JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford
• JavaScript Patterns - Stoyan Stefanov
• Pro JavaScript Design Patterns - Ross Harmes and Dustin Diaz
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers - Steve Souders
• Maintainable JavaScript - Nicholas C. Zakas
• JavaScript Web Applications - Alex MacCaw
• Pro JavaScript Techniques - John Resig
• Smashing Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere - Guillermo Rauch
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja - John Resig and Bear Bibeault
• Human JavaScript - Henrik Joreteg
• Superhero.js - Kim Joar Bekkelund, Mads Mobæk, & Olav Bjorkoy
• JSBooks - Julien Bouquillon
• Third Party JavaScript - Ben Vinegar and Anton Kovalyov
• Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript - David Herman
• Eloquent JavaScript - Marijn Haverbeke
• You Don’t Know JS: ES6 & Beyond - Kyle Simpson

Blogs

• JavaScript Weekly
• JavaScript, JavaScript…
• Bocoup Weblog
• Adequately Good
• NCZOnline
• Perfection Kills
• Ben Alman
• Dmitry Baranovskiy
• nettuts

Podcasts

• JavaScript Air
• JavaScript Jabber

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In the Wild

This is a list of organizations that are using this style guide. Send us a pull request and we’ll add you to the list.

• 123erfasst: 123erfasst/javascript
• 4Catalyzer: 4Catalyzer/javascript
• Aan Zee: AanZee/javascript
• Airbnb: airbnb/javascript
• AloPeyk: AloPeyk
• AltSchool: AltSchool/javascript
• Apartmint: apartmint/javascript
• Ascribe: ascribe/javascript
• Avant: avantcredit/javascript
• Axept: axept/javascript
• Billabong: billabong/javascript
• Bisk: bisk
• Bonhomme: bonhommeparis/javascript
• Brainshark: brainshark/javascript
• CaseNine: CaseNine/javascript
• Cerner: Cerner
• Chartboost: ChartBoost/coding-style-guide
• Coeur d’Alene Tribe: www.cdatribe-nsn.gov
• ComparaOnline: comparaonline/javascript
• Compass Learning: compasslearning/coding-style-guide
• DailyMotion: dailymotion/javascript
• DoSomething: DoSomething/eslint-config
• Digitpaint digitpaint/javascript
• Drupal: www.drupal.org
• Ecosia: ecosia/javascript
• Evernote: evernote/coding-style-guide
• Evolution Gaming: evolution-gaming/javascript
• EvozonJs: evozonjs/javascript
• ExactTarget: ExactTarget/javascript
• Flexberry: Flexberry/coding-style-guide
• Gawker Media: gawkermedia
• General Electric: GeneralElectric/javascript
• Generation Tux: GenerationTux/javascript
• GoodData: gooddata/gdc-js-style
• GreenChef: greenchef/javascript
• Grooveshark: grooveshark/javascript
• Grupo-Abraxas: Grupo-Abraxas/javascript
• Happeo: happeo/javascript
• Honey: honeyscience/javascript
• How About We: howaboutwe/javascript
• HubSpot: HubSpot/javascript
• Hyper: hyperoslo/javascript-playbook
• InterCity Group: intercitygroup/coding-style-guide
• Jam3: Jam3/Javascript-Code-Conventions
• JSSolutions: JSSolutions/javascript
• Kaplan Komputing: kaplankomputing/javascript
• KickorStick: kickorstick
• Kinetica Solutions: kinetica/javascript
• LEINWAND: LEINWAND/javascript
• Lonely Planet: lonelyplanet/javascript
• M2GEN: M2GEN/javascript
• Mighty Spring: mightyspring/javascript
• MinnPost: MinnPost/javascript
• MitocGroup: MitocGroup/javascript
• Muber: muber
• National Geographic: natgeo
• NullDev: NullDevCo/JavaScript-Styleguide
• Nulogy: nulogy/javascript
• Orange Hill Development: orangehill/javascript
• Orion Health: orionhealth/javascript
• OutBoxSoft: OutBoxSoft/javascript
• Peerby: Peerby/javascript
• Pier 1: Pier1/javascript
• Qotto: Qotto/coding-style-guide
• React: facebook.github.io/react/contributing/how-to-contribute.html#style-guide
• REI: reidev/js-style-guide
• Ripple: ripple/coding-style-guide
• Sainsbury’s Supermarkets: jsainsburyplc
• Shutterfly: shutterfly/javascript
• Sourcetoad: sourcetoad/javascript
• Springload: springload
• StratoDem Analytics: stratodem/javascript
• SteelKiwi Development: steelkiwi/javascript
• StudentSphere: studentsphere/javascript
• SwoopApp: swoopapp/javascript
• SysGarage: sysgarage/coding-style-guide
• Syzygy Warsaw: syzygypl/javascript
• Target: target/javascript
• Terra: terra
• TheLadders: TheLadders/javascript
• The Nerdery: thenerdery/javascript-standards
• Tomify: tomprats
• Traitify: traitify/eslint-config-traitify
• T4R Technology: T4R-Technology/javascript
• UrbanSim: urbansim
• VoxFeed: VoxFeed/coding-style-guide
• WeBox Studio: weboxstudio/javascript
• Weggo: Weggo/javascript
• Zillow: zillow/javascript
• ZocDoc: ZocDoc/javascript

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The JavaScript Style Guide Guide

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License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Airbnb

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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Amendments

We encourage you to fork this guide and change the rules to fit your team’s style guide. Below, you may list some amendments to the style guide. This allows you to periodically update your style guide without having to deal with merge conflicts.