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JavaScript Coding Standards

The core WordPress PHP files become cleaner and easier to read with every release, thanks in part to our strong standards for PHP code style. Our JavaScript, on the other hand, hasn't gotten nearly enough love. This post is intended to open up the recent discussion around JavaScript style to the greater community so we can make up for lost time.

Don't we already have a style guide for JavaScript?

Back in March, @tommcfarlin added a set of coding standards for JavaScript to the developer handbook. These WordPress JS coding standards were a great work-in-progress, but weren't fully comprehensive (leading to some comment threads clarifying various areas). More importantly, without any clear implementation plan the style guide failed to gain traction.

At WordCamp Boston's core

	<html>
	<head>
	<style type="text/css">
	table table {
	width: 600px !important;
	}
	table div + div { /* main content */
	width: 65%;
	float: left;
	}

	#!/bin/bash

	# args
	MSG=${1-'deploy from git'}
	BRANCH=${2-'trunk'}

	# paths
	SRC_DIR=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
	DIR_NAME=$(basename $SRC_DIR)
	DEST_DIR=~/Sites/wp-plugins/$DIR_NAME/$BRANCH

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# args
	MSG=${1-'deploy from git'}
	BRANCH=${2-'trunk'}

	# paths
	SRC_DIR=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
	DIR_NAME=$(basename $SRC_DIR)
	DEST_DIR=~/svn/$DIR_NAME/$BRANCH