styleGuide.txt

1) variable declarations
 1.1) single var declaration at top of function (scope)
 1.2) alphabetize variable declarations
 1.3) use full names, not abbreviations
 1.4) tab indent declarations for alignment
	1.4.1) convert tabs to spaces in your editor
 1.5) multiple property assignments should break across lines 

2) functions 
 2.1) I/O bound functions take callbacks
 2.2) return err as the first argument

3) modules
 3.1) export constructor functions, not assign methods into arguments

4) controllers
 4.1) bubble controller errors with `next` middleware
 4.2) actions should match Rails (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html)

5) naming conventions
node
 5.1) models: 		foo.js
 5.2) controllers: 	foos-controllers.js
 5.3) views: 		foos-index.ejs
 
backbone
 5.4) models: 		foo.js
 5.5) collections: 	foos-collection.js
 5.6) routers: 		foos-router.js
 5.7) views: 		foos-index.js
 5.8) templates: 	foos-index.jst

6) database
 6.1) use mongoose (http://mongoosejs.com/)

7) template engine
 7.1) handlebars (http://handlebarsjs.com/)
 
8) styles
 8.1) Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)

9) buttons
 9.1) button text should be contained in markup

 

Helpful Resouces:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javascriptguide.xml