JavaScript Coding Standards

[GamajoTech]

Following up on scribu's and azaozz's comments in #15650, would a JavaScript Coding Standards page on the Codex (equivalent to ​http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards and ​http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS_Coding_Standards) be useful?

It would not only include the usual code formatting, whitespace, brace position, semi-colon requirements etc, but also clarify on which code patterns are preferable for performance, both for the specific dependency library, and those that will give the smallest file when minified.

Another idea might be to introduce a file docblock that outlines which JS library or other file dependencies the current file has.

Some references:

• ​http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
• ​http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml
• ​http://drupal.org/node/172169

koopersmith has been putting one together, for the core contributor handbook. He'll release a draft when he's gotten that far.

One other useful reference I should have added to the ticket:

• ​http://docs.jquery.com/JQuery_Core_Style_Guidelines

Thanks nacin, I'll get in touch with koopersmith.

I'd also like to see this in the codex