There’s a name for that: the Kebab Case

You know that feeling where you want to describe something, but you don’t know the correct or accurate term to label it as?   That was me whenever I encountered code or filenames where the letters were all lowercased and the words were separated with a dash.

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While I was reading through the Angular 2 docs, I finally learned a term for that naming convention:  it’s the kebab case!

You may see others refer to it as:

• Lisp case
• Spinal case
• Dash case

The act of transforming your strings into the kebab case is known as dasherizing.  There’s even a npm module that will take care of that for you.

Code has never looked so tasty before.