# Enforcing Consistent Coding Conventions with Shared IDE Settings and Build Checks

DevFeed: [Enforcing Consistent Coding Conventions with Shared IDE Settings and Build Checks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/forcing-conventions-27307.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.pchudzik.com/201906/code-style/>)

Published: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Paweł Chudzik](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/pawe-chudzik.md>)

Topics: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>), [version-control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/version-control.md>), [Maven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maven.md>), [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [IntelliJ IDEA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intellij-idea.md>), [Vim](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vim.md>)

Tags: [code-style](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-style.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ide.md>), [maven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maven.md>), [version-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version-control.md>), [vim](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vim.md>)

## AI overview

The article recommends exporting shared IDE code-style settings into version control and using build-time checks to enforce coding conventions across tools and team members.

## Source excerpt

When the whole team agrees on coding standards we tend to be optimistic. We think that from now on everything will be exactly as we decided. The truth is that usually after a couple of months you'll reinstall IDE or system and forget about configuration or new people join and it's the Wild West all over again. Read more