Coding style is a geek topic that developers talk a lot about during coding collaboration interactions. One of the first things that come up, is usually “What case do we use”? I was in such a scenario recently, and thought I dug a little deeper to explore all the options.

Camel Case

Practice of writing compound words or phrases such that each word or abbreviation in the middle of the phrase begins with a capital letter, with no intervening spaces or punctuation. 

Examples: johnDoe, lastConnectionDate

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

Pascal Case

Practice of writing compound words or phrases such that the first letter of each concatenated word is capitalised. 

Examples: JohnDoe, LastConnectionDate

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PascalCase

Snake Case

Practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the elements are separated with one underscore character (_) and no spaces.

Examples: john_doe, last_connection_date

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_case

Kebab Case

Practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the elements are separated with one dash character (-) and no spaces.

Examples: John-doe, Last-connection-date

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Special_case_styles

Train Case

Practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the elements are separated with one dash character (-), no spaces and every word capitalised.

Examples: John-Doe, Last-Connection-Date

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Special_case_styles