JavaScript: Best Practices for Code Formatting

JavaScript: Best Practices for Code Formatting

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 1h 50m | 254 MB

JavaScript offers developers tremendous power, but also a wide variety of code style choices. Its evolution over decades and shifts in audience and approach have left communities fragmented and impeded code sharing. In this course, longtime coder and teacher Sasha Vodnik provides a core set of practices for creating code that can be read by more people than its creators. Learn about formatting details like commenting, punctuation, and spacing to maximize your code’s ability to travel and thrive.

Topics include:

  • Using modern deployment tools
  • Working with ESLint
  • Creating easy-to-read comments
  • Using commas consistently
  • Standardizing line length in your code
  • Using a consistent format for blocks
  • Choosing and implementing a standard indent
Table of Contents

1 Modern standards for your JavaScript
2 What you should know
3 Set up your environment
4 Style guides
5 Use modern deployment tools
6 ESLint
7 Foundational practice Use strict mode
8 Use single-line syntax for single lines
9 Multi-line syntax with leading asterisks
10 Include leading spaces in comments
11 Challenge Create JavaScript comments
12 Solution Create JavaScript comments
13 End statements with a semicolon
14 Don’t rely on auto semicolon insertion
15 Standardize line length
16 Use commas consistently
17 Include a comma in a list of values
18 Challenge Optimize punctuation
19 Solution Optimize punctuation
20 Indent consistently
21 Space before and after operators
22 Use a consistent format for blocks
23 Include a space after keywords and arrows
24 Use consistent spacing before function signature parentheses
25 Break up and indent long-method chains
26 Space consistently within enclosing characters
27 Space after commas, but not before
28 Limit blank space to one line
29 Challenge Optimize spacing
30 Solution Optimize spacing
31 Next steps