Is there a reason for leaving out the semicolons in the code? about art-of-node HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi, good question. Semicolons, comma placement, indenting, capitalization
etc are all cosmetic, like an accent for code. My style can be summarized
as something like "no semicolon 2 space indent camelCase", but there are
many other styles too.

As long as you know where you need semicolons (for loops, multiple
statements on one line, etc) then they are pretty easy to leave out. I
haven't had ever had a semicolon related bug and I've been writing for a
couple years now without them.

On Monday, July 8, 2013, Erica Xu wrote:

Curious to know. Thanks!

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It shocked me when I first saw the code without semicolons, but now I understand. Thanks for the quick answer.

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Starting to learn Node this week. I had to google to make sure if semicolon was required or not.

It really should be there just to be consistent with the node style guide. We don't want to teach beginners bad habits.
https://github.com/felixge/node-style-guide#use-semicolons

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You should choose the style you like. Just like wearing clothes. One style
is not better than another. I personally prefer
https://github.com/feross/standard

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:33 AM, yadakhov [email protected] wrote:

Starting to learn Node this week. I had to google to make sure if
semicolon was required or not.

It really should be there just to be consistent with the node style guide.
We don't want to teach beginners bad habits.
https://github.com/felixge/node-style-guide#use-semicolons

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