Javascript Style Guide For Mozilla Projects

There doesn’t seem to be one (or I couldn’t find it!). Here are a few guidelines I’ve picked up from recent patch review comments. Please comment if you have additions and corrections, and maybe we can coalesce this into a page on MDC, with examples and the reasoning behind the guidelines.

• Two space indentation is most common in browser/toolkit code
• Lines need to wrap at 80 characters
• Braces are usually same-line, and only used when surrounding a multiline block
• Use an underscore (“_”) as the private prefix for properties and methods
• When wrapping a long expression, the operator goes at the end of the line
• Use spaces instead of tabs
• Adhere to the style of the code you’re fixing (or fix it, if it’s incorrect!)
• Use inline comments liberally

References:

• bz317107, comments 43 and 46
• bz328159, comment 8 (some of the other comments have good critique as well)