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A collection of style guides and best practices for software development across various programming languages and frameworks.

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Guides / Styling / CSS
Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
Principles of writing consistent, idiomatic CSS 6,655 almost 3 years ago
HTML and CSS code guide
General CSS notes, advice and guidelines 3,659 about 3 years ago

Guides / Styling / Sass
Principles of writing idiomatic Sass 228 over 9 years ago
Sass Style Guide
Sass Guidelines

Guides / Markup / HTML
Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
HTML and CSS code guide 8,456 over 1 year ago

Guides / Markup / XML
Google XML Document Format Style Guide

Guides / Programming Languages / C
C Code Style Guidelines
ESA Style Guide for 'C' coding

Guides / Programming Languages / C++
Google C++ Style Guide
C++ Core Guidelines 43,002 about 1 year ago

Guides / Programming Languages / C#
C# Coding Conventions
Framework Design Guidelines

Guides / Programming Languages / Clojure
Clojure Style Guide 4,019 over 1 year ago

Guides / Programming Languages / CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript Style Guide 1,637 about 7 years ago

Guides / Programming Languages / Elixir
Elixir Style Guide 4,371 over 1 year ago

Guides / Programming Languages / Go
Go Code Review Comments 124,564 11 months ago

Guides / Programming Languages / Haskell
Haskell Programming Guidelines

Guides / Programming Languages / JavaScript
Google JavaScript Style Guide
Google JavaScript Style Guide [UPDATED]
Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript 24,915 almost 2 years ago
Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide 145,636 11 months ago
JavaScript: The Right Way
ES6 Coding Style 400 about 9 years ago
JavaScript SDK Design Guide 1,427 over 1 year ago
Project Guidelines 29,443 11 months ago

Guides / Programming Languages / Java
Google Java Style

Guides / Programming Languages / Objective-C
Google Objective-C Style Guide
NYTimes Objective-C Style Guide 5,849 over 2 years ago
The official raywenderlich.com Objective-C style guide 3,098 about 8 years ago

Guides / Programming Languages / PHP
PHP: The Right Way
PHP Standard Recommendations

Guides / Programming Languages / Perl
Perl Best Practices Quick Reference Guide [PDF]

Guides / Programming Languages / Python
PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code
Google Python Style Guide

Guides / Programming Languages / Ruby
Ruby Style Guide 16,481 about 1 year ago
Ruby Style Guidelines

Guides / Programming Languages / Rust
Rust Style Guide 99,490 11 months ago

Guides / Programming Languages / Scala
Scala Style Guide
Effective Scala

Guides / Programming Languages / Shell
Google Shell Style Guide
Scripting with style

Guides / Programming Languages / SQL
SQL Style Guide

Guides / Programming Languages / Swift
The Official Kodeco Swift Style Guide 13,125 almost 2 years ago

Guides / Programming Languages / Vimscript
Google Vimscript Style Guide

Guides / Frameworks / AngularJS
AngularJS Style Guide 23,842 over 3 years ago
An AngularJS Style Guide for Closure Users at Google

Guides / Frameworks / RSpec
Better Specs { rspec guidelines with ruby }
RSpec Style Guide 959 almost 2 years ago
Even Better Specs | Guidelines for Maintainable Tests

Guides / Frameworks / Rails
Rails Style Guide 6,483 about 1 year ago

Guides / Frameworks / Vue
The official style guide for Vue-specific code

Guides / Other / API
HTTP API Design Guide 13,688 almost 2 years ago
Principles of good RESTful API Design
Microsoft REST API Guidelines 22,848 11 months ago
Building JSON-LD APIs: Best Practices
Zalando RESTful API and Event Scheme Guidelines

Guides / Other / Bots
Principles of bot design
General Best Practices

Guides / Other / CLI
Command Line Interface Guidelines

Guides / Other / Deployment
Deployments Best Practices

Guides / Other / Favicon
favicon-cheat-sheet 9,884 over 3 years ago

Guides / Other / iOS
The iOS Design Guidelines

Guides / Other / Git
Git Style Guide 5,087 about 3 years ago
Commit messages guide 6,730 12 months ago

Guides / Other / JSON
Google JSON Style Guide

Guides / Other / Machine Learning
Rules of Machine Learning

Guides / Other / Node.js
Node.js Style Guide 5,006 almost 5 years ago
Node.js Best Practices 101,014 over 1 year ago

Guides / Other / Security
Security Principles
Web Security Guidelines
WebAppSec/Secure Coding Guidelines
Web Application Security Guide/Checklist

Guides / Other / UI
A Good User Interface
Pagination 101

Guides / Other / Writing
Writing style
Documentation Style Guide
Apple Style Guide
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Google Developer Documentation Style Guide

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