Coding Style

[ElectronicsArchiver]

As this is a new beginning, I was wondering if the style
could be adjused to be 'prettier' as well, pun intended.

Generally speaking I don't think very highly of linters
and the like, to me not going through your code and doing
at least a little bit of clean up - and finding possible
problems - is a bit backwards.

My Suggestion

Instead of writing up guidelines that no one wants to read,
how about just refering to already well formatted files.
( Once there are some )

Work by example, that is.

Style

Don't enforce one strict style, simply
show things that make it better.

Example

Columns

Simply staying below 60 - 80

Editorconfig

Use editorconfig for basic consistensy

Writing small / clear if else return statements

startIdForScope(scope){
    return (scope === this.scopeName)
        ? -1
        : null ;
},

startIdForScope(scope){
    return (scope === this.scopeName)
        ? -1 : null ;
},  

Give stuff space

Vertical space is cheap / easy to traverse~

const path = require('path');
const fs = require('fs-plus');


const { log } = console;


const hasWriteAccess = (directory) => {
    
    const testPath = path
        .join(directory,'write.test');
  
    const date = new Date()
        .toISOString();
  
    try {
        fs.writeFileSync(testPath,date,{ flag: 'w+' });
        fs.unlinkSync(testPath);
    } catch (error) { return false; }
    
    return true;
};

Guide

Creating a nice, simply & readable style guide
would be a good way to convey that, I'd say.

Unlike https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md for example

[aminya]

We already have a coding style, and it is Prettier. Run script/lint --fix.

This is our prettier config used in all the packages (except for Atom itself). We don't want to change the prettier config used in Atom because that will create conflicts in the pull requests.
https://github.com/atom-community/prettier-config-atomic

[ElectronicsArchiver]

And what about Atom itself?

[aminya]

Atom uses prettier through eslint (the default settings)

atom/.eslintrc.json

Line 28 in 7eaebe0

"prettier/prettier": ["error"]