Cursor Rules are a Cursor feature that allows you to define specific coding standards and preferences, ensuring consistency and efficiency across your projects.

Kinda like a custom GPT..

Understanding Cursor Rules

Cursor Rules are essentially a set of guidelines that dictate how your code should be structured and formatted. These rules can cover various aspects of coding, such as language preferences, library usage, indentation styles, error handling, and more. By implementing Cursor Rules, you can maintain a uniform coding style, which is particularly beneficial when collaborating with a team or managing large codebases.

Creating Cursor Rules

To create effective Cursor Rules, consider the following steps:

1. Define Your Coding Standards: Start by outlining the specific coding standards you wish to enforce. This could include language preferences (e.g., JavaScript, Python), library usage (e.g., React, Vue.js), and formatting styles (e.g., camelCase, 4-space indentation).

Utilize Online Tools: Several online platforms can assist in generating and managing Cursor Rules. Websites like EditorConfig and Prettier offer tools to define and enforce coding styles across different editors and IDEs.
Implement a .cursorrules File: Create a .cursorrules file in your project directory to store your defined rules. This file acts as a reference for Cursor, ensuring that your coding standards are consistently applied.

Implementing a .cursorrules File

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Create the .cursorrules File:

Navigate to the root directory of your project.
Create a new file named .cursorrules.

2. Define Your Coding Standards:

In the .cursorrules file, specify the coding standards you wish to enforce. This can include:
Language Preferences: Specify the programming languages you are using, such as JavaScript or Python.
Library Usage: Define preferred libraries, like React for JavaScript or FastAPI for Python.
Formatting Styles: Set rules for code formatting, such as camelCase for variable names or 4-space indentation.

Integrating Cursor Rules with Our Training

Use what we've learned in the training to make your .cursorrules file awesome. Number one is to pick and paste the actual prompt of Cogo to easily improve your generated code. You're also find lots of little tricks there to help you get consistent code, prevent the AI from skipping or summarizing, and more. If you're working on a team, work together on the cursor rules file which can lead to better synchronization of different coding styles into a stellar code base. This can also help you continue the coding style of an existing could base without having half of it look like your team style, and the other half look AI generated.

In the full training I'll share the best Cursor rules from across the web.

Next week we'll talk about Composer, the magic little helper that makes files for you so you can bootstrap a folder. This works great with Cogo too.

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