angular-styleguide
An opinionated coding style guide for teams building Angular apps.
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- Last update
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- Learning resource
What it is
This is a written style guide for Angular, the web app framework. It lays out conventions for syntax and for structuring Angular applications, along with the reasons behind each choice, so a team can write code in a consistent way. The README says it is based on the author's experience and training courses, and it is split into separate guides for Angular 1 and Angular 2.
- Use the guide as a starting point for a team's internal Angular conventions
- Look up naming, file structure, or syntax conventions when reviewing Angular code
- Open an issue in the repository to ask about or propose changes to the guide
Great for
- Development teams that want shared conventions for Angular code
- Developers who want to read a reasoned set of Angular practices
- Teams maintaining an Angular 1 codebase (the a1 guide)
- Developers working on Angular 2 and later who want a structured reference (the a2 guide)
Not ideal for
- People who need a runnable tool or library, since this is documentation only; the README describes no installable software
- Developers who want a single guide covering only current Angular, because the README points to separate guides per version and the content here is not summarized
- Teams that want rules they must follow without discussion, since the guide describes itself as opinionated and based on one author's experience
How to get it
- 1
See the README
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide - 2
Run it
- Open the repository on GitHub or clone it locally
- Choose the a1 or a2 guide based on your Angular version
- Read the guide for the conventions you need
- Adopt the sections your team agrees on
- 3
Get the most out of it
- Read the reasoning sections, not only the rules, to decide what fits your team
- Use the contributing process (issue first, then pull request) to propose changes
- Pair the guide with the companion Pluralsight course the author mentions in the README
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Strengths
- Explains the reasoning behind each recommendation, not just the rule
- Split into version-specific guides for Angular 1 and Angular 2
- Licensed under MIT, so teams can adapt it freely
Trade-offs
- Opinionated, so some recommendations may not match a given team's preferences
- The README is truncated here and does not show the full content of the version guides
- The copyright notice covers 2014-2016, so the README's age may affect how current some advice is
Stats synced from GitHub. The assessment above was drafted with AI from the project's README on 2026-10-29 and may miss recent changes — check the README before relying on a command. MIT licence: free to use, modify and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.