Create your best practices

What's a best practice?

A best practice is a guideline that developers should follow in your context. The topic can be various and you can address rules regarding a programming language, a framework, Architecture, Security, Performance, Clean code, or any topic you want.

You can define rules at any level, syntactic or more abstract, It's up to you.

A best practice has just a name that describes its intent and a description. It has also a list of examples. We use the concept of positive and negative examples when the source code follows or does not follow a best practice.

The documentation of your best practice comes from your users and your source code

When an example is added to a best practice, there's no link with the actual source code stored on Git, it's just a snapshot that will persist in Packmind.

Create best practice

There are 3 recommended ways to create your own best practices in Packmind:

• Using our IDE plugins

• Using our Web browsers plugins

• Using the Web UI during a Craft Workshop

Navigate below to find those use cases:

urlhttps://gitlab.com/promyze/app/promyze-docs/-/blob/main/plugins-and-integrations/ide-plugins/Packminds-ide-plugins-use-cases.mdpageCode reviews pluginspageIdentify best practices during a Workshop

Raise questions or discussion topics

You can raise questions or discussion topics from the plugins, and highlight them during a Craft Workshop.

This is useful when you're unclear or uncertain about a best practice and want to ask or show something to you team, for instance:

• You'd like clarifications on a coding standard found in your code;

• You've got a question on the understanding of a pattern or a piece of code;

• You're convinced a best practice is not followed but can't really explicit it or name it so far, and need your team's opinions

Here is an illustration of the process of submitting a question or a discussion topic:

Supported programming languages

Packmind supports any language, since we basically fits any textual content, including Web technologies, DevOps tooling, Gherkin syntax, ...