mediawiki-extensions-Visual.../CODING.md
Timo Tijhof ab7d6bf082 Documentation & clean up
* Commands for Sublime:

  Find*: "(\* @[a-z]+) ([^{].*) \{(.*)\}"
  Replace: "$1 {$3} $2"

  Save all && Close all

  Find: " function("
  Replace: " function ("

  Save all && Close all

  Find: "Intialization"
  Replace: "Initialization"

  Save all && Close all

* Consistent use of types (documented in CODING.rm):
  - Merged {Integer} into {Number}.
  - Merged {DOM Node} into {DOMElement}.

* Remove work-around /*jshint newcap: false */ from ve.js
  Calling Object() as a function to to use the internal
  toObject no longer throws a newcap warning in JSHint.
  It only does that normal functions now .

  (e.g. var a = Cap(); or var a = new uncap();)

* Add missing annotations (@static, @method, ..).

* Remove unused variables

* Remove null-assignments to variables that should just be
  undefined. There's a few variables explicitly set to null
  whereas they are set a few lines under and not used otherwise
  (e.g. 'tx' in ve.ce.Surface.prototype.onPaste)

Change-Id: I0721a08f8ecd93c25595aedaa1aadb0e08b83799
2012-09-17 16:02:52 +02:00

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VisualEditor Code Guidelines

We inherit the code structure (about whitespace, naming and comments) conventions from MediaWiki:

Documentation comments

  • End sentences in a full stop.
  • Continue sentences belonging to an annotation on the next line, indented with an additional space.
  • Types in documentation comments should be separated by a pipe character. Use types that are listed in the Types section of this document, otherwise use the identifier (full path from the global scope) of the constructor function (e.g. {ve.dm.BranchNode}).

Annotations

We use the following annotations. They should be used in the order as they are described here for consistency.

  • @class
  • @mixin
  • @abstract
  • @constructor
  • @extends {Type}
  • @static
  • @method
  • @until Text: Optional details.
  • @source
  • @param {Type} varName Optional description.
  • @returns {Type} Optional description.

Types

Special values:

  • undefined
  • null
  • Infinity
  • NaN

Native language types:

  • Boolean
  • String
  • Number
  • Object

Native constructors:

  • Array
  • Date

Browser constructors:

  • DOMElement (alias for HTMLElement)

jQuery constructors:

  • jQuery
  • jQuery.Event