5 minutes
Crafting a style guide involves finding the right mix of detailed guidelines and open-ended suggestions.
As your software team grows with new features, hires, and teams, maintaining standards and consistency in the codebase becomes increasingly difficult. It’s one thing setting a technical standard, but enforcing it (or knowing when not to enforce it) is a much harder challenge. However, just like with many hurdles, there are practical steps you can take to overcome them.
Creating a style guide
Before we can talk about enforcing a standard, you have to have a standard to enforce. Think carefully about what you’d like to keep consistent across your codebase: recognize that not every developer on the team should write code that perfectly matches your own technique.
