Awesome Guidelines

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

A set of guidelines for a specific programming language that recommend programming style, practices, and methods for each aspect of a program written in that language.

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Contents

Programming Languages

Development Environment

Platforms

Frameworks

Content Management System

Tools

Contributors

Programming Languages
Brainfuck

BF Style Guide

NASA C++ Coding Standards and Style Guide

C Coding Standard

C Programming/Structure and style

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

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

Dart

Effective Dart

Elixir

Elixir Styleguide

Elm

Elm style guide

Erlang

Programming Rules and Conventions

Erlang Coding Guidelines

The F# Component Design Guidelines

Fortran

Fortran 90 Standards - European Standards For Writing and Documenting Exchangeable Fortran 90 Code.

Effective Go

Groovy

Apache Groovy style guide

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

Alibaba-Java-Coding-Guidelines - A guide for Java developers.

JavaScript

AngularJS Style Guide - Community-driven set of best practices for AngularJS application development.

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

JavaScript Clean Code - Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for JavaScript.

JSON

Google JSON Style Guide

Kotlin

Coding Conventions

Lua

Lua Style Guide

Markdown

Google Markdown Style Guide - Style guide for Google-originated projects using 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

Perl best practices v4 - Slides by Randal Schwartz, based on the book by Damian Conway.

Perl Elements to Avoid - A list of unrecommended practices, and what to do instead.

perlstyle

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.

Clean Code PHP - Clean Code concepts adapted for PHP.

Python

Style Guide for Python Code

Google Python Style Guide

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python - Highly regarded Python best practices guide.

Google's R Style Guide

The tidyverse style guide

Racket

How to Program Racket: a Style Guide

Ruby

The Ruby Style Guide - A community-driven Ruby coding style guide.

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.

Scala Best Practices

Swift

API Design Guidelines

Swift - GitHub Official Swift style and conventions.

Swift style guide

Swift Style Guide - LinkedIn Official Swift Style Guide.

Metova's Swift style guide

Xmartlabs Swift Style Guide - Swift language style guide & coding conventions followed by Xmartlabs.

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.

Xmartlabs Android Style Guide - Style guide for Android by Xmartlabs.

Apache

Apache Developers' C Language Style Guide

API

HAL - A simple format that gives a consistent and easy way to hyperlink between resources in your API.

Microsoft REST API Guidelines - The Microsoft REST API Guidelines.

JSON API - Recommendations - This section contains recommendations for JSON API implementations.

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 Guidelines - 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 Style Guide - A style guide which helps you write better, performant, structured, scalable and maintainable HTML.

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

Yelp Styleguide

Ambassador Conventions - A UX and design pattern library for all Ambassador apps.

Front-End Checklist

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.

Java

JavaEE Specification

Linux

Linux kernel coding style

Mailchimp

Mailchimp Content Style Guide

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.

MongoDB

Mongo Style Guide

SQL

SQL Style Guide

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

Robot Framework User Guide

Frameworks

Symfony Coding Standards

Django Coding Style

Content Management System

WordPress Coding Standards

Drupal 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

North - Design and development standards to align and guide your project.

EasyCodingStandard - The Easiest Way to Use Any Coding Standard.

PHP Coding Standards Fixer - The PHP Coding Standards Fixer (PHP CS Fixer) tool fixes your code to follow standards.

RuboCop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.

Contributors

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