Flex best practices – Part 1: Setting up your Flex project

Where to go from here

For more information on using and applying best practices for your Flex development process be sure to see the second part of this article, which will be published on DZone in the coming weeks.

• Adobe Flex coding guidelines
• Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices
• Best Practices for developing with ActionScript 3.0 by Peter Elst - Videos

Disclaimer

Here is a quote that you should keep in mind while you are going through the material presented in this article. I think this quote is pretty applicable:

"Every project targeting Flex is different, and thus best practices vary depending on the team involved and the project at hand. I have seen all manner of project practices that work for small teams but fail for larger teams and vice versa. This is my take on Flex best practices from having looked at many projects over the past three years. In many ways, my recommendations should not come as a surprise, as these are tenets of classical software development." - Ted Patrick

Attributions

Thank you very much to the following people for their input and review of this article. It would not exist without their help: Hong Qiu, Dolores Joya, Eric Feminella, Jeffry Houser, Jesse Warden, Shannon Hicks, and Chris Griffith.

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