Coding Guidelines (original) (raw)

Intro

These are VS Code coding guidelines. Please also review our Source Code Organisation page.

Indentation

We use tabs, not spaces.

Names

• Use PascalCase for type names
• Use PascalCase for enum values
• Use camelCase for function and method names
• Use camelCase for property names and local variables
• Use whole words in names when possible

Types

• Do not export types or functions unless you need to share it across multiple components
• Do not introduce new types or values to the global namespace

Comments

• Use JSDoc style comments for functions, interfaces, enums, and classes

Strings

• Use "double quotes" for strings shown to the user that need to be externalized (localized)
• Use 'single quotes' otherwise
• All strings visible to the user need to be externalized

UI labels

• Use title-style capitalization for command labels, buttons and menu items (each word is capitalized).
• Don't capitalize prepositions of four or fewer letters unless it's the first or last word (e.g. "in", "with", "for").

Style

• Use arrow functions => over anonymous function expressions
• Only surround arrow function parameters when necessary. For example, (x) => x + x is wrong but the following are correct:

x => x + x (x, y) => x + y (x: T, y: T) => x === y

• Always surround loop and conditional bodies with curly braces
• Open curly braces always go on the same line as whatever necessitates them
• Parenthesized constructs should have no surrounding whitespace. A single space follows commas, colons, and semicolons in those constructs. For example:

for (let i = 0, n = str.length; i < 10; i++) { if (x < 10) { foo(); } }

function f(x: number, y: string): void { }