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Style-guide projects on GitHub

Coding style conventions and best-practice guides for teams.

As of , the most-starred Style-guide projects on GitHub are javascript (148.1K stars), nodebestpractices (105.7K stars) and ruff (50.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 24 Style-guide repositories with 714.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was anti-slop, with +31 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+31

anti-slop

dmmulroy/anti-slop · ★ 5.6K

A set of opinionated Oxlint rules that reject low-evidence and low-signal patterns in TypeScript and JavaScript codebases.

+26

ruff

astral-sh/ruff · ★ 50.1K

Ruff is an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust, built to replace tools like Flake8, Black, isort, pydocstyle, pyupgrade, and autoflake with a single command-line tool.

+6

nodebestpractices

goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices · ★ 105.7K

A curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.

+5

awesome-design-systems

alexpate/awesome-design-systems · ★ 26.1K

A curated list of design systems — the documented principles, best practices and UI/pattern libraries that help a team build digital products consistently.

The all-time top

24 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · airbnb/javascript

    javascript

    A JavaScript style guide from Airbnb covering conventions for types, variables, functions, classes, modules, naming, whitespace, and more, described as 'a mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript'.

    148.1K
  2. #2 · goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices

    nodebestpractices

    A curated, community-maintained list that summarizes the top Node.js best practices, style guides, and architectural tips, organized into chapters covering architecture, error handling, code style, testing, production readiness, security, performance, and Docker.

    105.7K
  3. #3 · astral-sh/ruff

    ruff

    Ruff is an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust, built to replace tools like Flake8, Black, isort, pydocstyle, pyupgrade, and autoflake with a single command-line tool.

    50.1K
  1. 4

    CppCoreGuidelines

    45.4Kisocpp/CppCoreGuidelines · CSS

    The C++ Core Guidelines are a collaborative set of best-practice rules for writing modern C++ (C++11 and later), covering interfaces, resource management, memory management, and concurrency, with the goal of making code type-safe, leak-free, and fast.

  2. 5

    styleguide

    39.7Kgoogle/styleguide · HTML

    This is a collection of style guides Google uses for its own and Google-originated open-source code, covering languages like C++, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Shell, Swift, and more.

  3. 6

    standard

    29.4Kstandard/standard · JavaScript

    JavaScript Standard Style — a zero-configuration style guide, linter and automatic code fixer for JavaScript. It enforces one consistent style and catches programmer errors early, with nothing to set up.

  4. 7

    project-guidelines

    29.4Kelsewhencode/project-guidelines · JavaScript

    A public set of best practices for JavaScript projects, written and gathered by the elsewhen team - numbered rules for Git, documentation, environments, dependencies, testing, code style, APIs and more.

  5. 8

    awesome-design-systems

    26.1Kalexpate/awesome-design-systems

    A curated list of design systems — the documented principles, best practices and UI/pattern libraries that help a team build digital products consistently.

  6. 9

    idiomatic.js

    25.7Krwaldron/idiomatic.js

    A style guide document laying out principles for writing consistent, idiomatic JavaScript code, covering whitespace, syntax, naming, type checking, and comments.

  7. 10

    angular-styleguide

    23.6Kjohnpapa/angular-styleguide · Vim Snippet

    An opinionated style guide for Angular: documented conventions for syntax, structure, and building Angular applications, written by John Papa for development teams.

  8. 11

    docz

    23.6Kpedronauck/docz · TypeScript

    Docz is a documentation tool: you write MDX files showcasing your code, and it turns them into a live-reloading, production-ready documentation site.

  9. 12

    api-guidelines

    23.3Kmicrosoft/api-guidelines

    A collection of guidelines published by Microsoft for designing consistent, well-behaved RESTful web APIs, shared publicly to foster dialogue in the broader API community.

  10. 13

    guide

    17.7Kuber-go/guide · Makefile

    It's the Uber Go Style Guide — an open document describing the patterns and conventions Uber uses when writing Go code.

  11. 14

    ruby-style-guide

    16.5Krubocop/ruby-style-guide

    A community-driven Ruby coding style guide: it recommends best practices so real-world Ruby programmers can write code that other people can maintain. It deliberately favors established real-world usage over unproven ideals.

  12. 15

    chinese-copywriting-guidelines

    15.8Ksparanoid/chinese-copywriting-guidelines

    A style guide for writing and typesetting Chinese text correctly — covering spacing between Chinese and Latin characters/numbers, punctuation usage, full-width vs half-width characters, and correct casing of proper nouns — meant to reduce miscommunication within teams and make websites look more polished.

  13. 16

    react-redux-typescript-guide

    13.3Kpiotrwitek/react-redux-typescript-guide · TypeScript

    A living guide collecting the most important patterns and recipes for using React and Redux in a fully type-safe way with TypeScript, favoring type inference over manual type annotations.

  14. 17

    swift-style-guide

    13.1Kkodecocodes/swift-style-guide

    This is the official Swift style guide used by Kodeco (formerly raywenderlich.com) to keep the Swift code in its books, tutorials, and starter kits consistent across many different authors.

  15. 18

    document-style-guide

    13Kruanyf/document-style-guide

    This is a style guide for writing Chinese-language technical documentation, covering conventions for titles, text, paragraphs, numbers, and punctuation.

  16. 19

    rubocop

    12.9Krubocop/rubocop · Ruby

    RuboCop is a static code analyzer (linter) and code formatter for Ruby that enforces the community Ruby Style Guide out of the box, and it is also configurable to enforce your own style.

  17. 20

    laravel-best-practices

    12.3Kalexeymezenin/laravel-best-practices

    A widely used community guide (12k+ stars) that collects best practices for writing Laravel applications. Each practice comes with a Bad and a Good code example, and the guide has been translated into 25 languages.

  18. 21

    awesome-guidelines

    11.2KKristories/awesome-guidelines · JavaScript

    A curated list of programming style guides, best practices, and coding conventions — one page collecting links to official and community guidelines for dozens of languages, platforms, and tools.

  19. 22

    zh-google-styleguide

    11Kzh-google-styleguide/zh-google-styleguide · Makefile

    This is a Chinese-language translation of Google's style guides for its open-source projects, covering coding conventions for C++, Objective-C, Python, Shell, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and Java.

  20. 23

    anti-slop

    5.6Kdmmulroy/anti-slop · TypeScript

    A set of opinionated Oxlint rules that reject low-evidence and low-signal patterns in TypeScript and JavaScript codebases.

  21. 24

    Tech-Doc-Style-Chinese

    1.5KFenng/Tech-Doc-Style-Chinese · Python

    It is a reusable writing 'Skill' (a rule file plus helper scripts) for Chinese technical documentation and product copy, meant to be loaded by AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex so they rewrite Chinese text more precisely and less like marketing fluff.

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