Blog: Use kebab case in package names

[igeligel]

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Proposed Blog Title

How to name files and directories in JavaScript projects

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how-to-name-files-and-directories-in-javascript-projects

Description

Use kebab-case for all package, folder and file names.

Why? You should imagine that any folder or file might be extracted to its own package some day. Packages cannot contain uppercase letters.

New packages must not have uppercase letters in the name. https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#name

Therefore, camelCase should never be used. This leaves snake_case and kebab-case.

kebab-case is by far the most common convention today. The only use of underscores is for internal node packages, and this is simply a convention from the early days.

[igeligel]

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