A little more than a year after releasing our internal front end engineering guidelines, we’re proud to announce that we’ve just made the first major revision live this afternoon. Beyond the content, which has been updated to better reflect the current state of front-end development, we redesigned it to fly the company colors and redid the markup starting with the HTML5Boilerplate (which some of us have contributed to as well.) We wanted the document itself to better reflect the standards we’re trying to promote.

In addition to the original team, this revision couldn’t have happened without the help of three new members of the Creative Technology team – Annette Arabasz, Jared Williams and Rob Cherny. This update was driven by their hard work and enthusiasm.

Code standards are living documents, and should themselves change to reflect the latest best practices, thought leadership, and trends both in the community whose practices they seek to standardize and in the greater development community as a whole. Front-end development is one of the fastest growing disciplines in software development; to ensure that our standards are able to keep pace, we are also now hosting them on Github. By opening up our standards document to the community, we hope to encourage other developers to think about how to best standardize their approaches to development, to propose their own ideas for debate and for inclusion in our version of the document, and to adapt our standards for their own unique development practices.

As always we welcome your comments. Let us know what you think and fork us on Github! Have any thoughts on anything you want to see added or changed? File a Github issue request!