---
title: General Application Development Standards
tags:
  - standards
  - best-practice
  - engineering
author:
  name: Zihlu Wang
  email: real@zihluwang.me
---

## Introduction

This document outlines coding standards and best practices for application development. Adhering to these guidelines
ensures code quality, maintainability, and consistency across all projects.

## General Principles

- **Clarity & Readability**: Code must be easy to read and understand. Prefer clear, self-documenting code over clever,
  terse, but obscure solutions.
- **Consistency**: Maintain a consistent coding style, naming conventions, and architectural patterns across the
  project.
- **Modularity**: Design components with loose coupling and high cohesion to promote reusability and simpler testing.
- **Testability**: Write code that is inherently testable.
- **Security-First Design**: Incorporate security considerations at every stage of development.
- **Performance Awareness**: Be mindful of performance implications for critical code paths and API endpoints.