One source of truth for how your team writes code
Style debates in code review are a tax on every pull request. A coding standards guide settles them once: it defines how the team names things, structures files, writes comments, handles errors, and reviews changes. This builder produces a clean, repo-ready Markdown guide so new and existing engineers all follow the same playbook.
How it works
The builder organizes your inputs into the sections every good standards guide needs. Naming conventions define casing and patterns for variables, functions, classes, and files. File and folder structure describes where code lives and how modules are organized. Comment standards set expectations for when and how to document code. Error handling captures the team’s pattern for raising, catching, and logging errors. The code review checklist lists what every reviewer verifies before approving.
Each list-style field renders as bullets and the language you specify scopes the whole document, producing plain Markdown that commits straight into a CONTRIBUTING.md or style guide.
Tips and example
- Pair every naming rule with a tiny example, e.g. “Booleans use an is/has prefix:
isActive,hasAccess.” - Keep the error-handling section opinionated — pick one pattern (such as typed errors plus structured logging) and require it everywhere.
- Make the review checklist short enough that reviewers actually run through it every time; five to eight items is the sweet spot.
- Commit the guide to the repository so it is versioned and changes go through the same review process as code.