Best Practices for Writing Code

Diff Before Every Commit

Get into the habit of running git diff or git diff --cached before every commit.

Commits Should Be Granular

You should keep each commit as granular as possible. For instance, do not check in 2 bug fixes in one commit -- separate them out into 2 commits.

4 Spaces, No Tabs

The team has decreed there will be no tabs in our code. Please set your tabs to equal 4 spaces.

Avoid Y.Node.setContent() and foo.innerHTML unless absolutely necessary

innerHTML and Y.Node.setContent() pass data to innerHTML under the hood, which may lead developers to inadvertently write unsafe code on top of our APIs. Do not use these methods unless you actually need their functionality. If all you need to do is put some plain text on the page, use Y.Node's text attribute which is safe for user-supplied strings: