Airbnb's JS style guide about intermission-assignments HOT 7 CLOSED

Grumble: For multi-line strings, I'm not sure why they prefer string concatenation ("+") to splitting with "".
Happy about: most of it, especially descriptive naming.

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Not sure my JS is strong enough to have any real opinion on any of these but... yeah.

• Single quoting strings... not sure why on this one. I guess with no-interpolation its just not important and they arbitrarily picked single? Hound kind of engrained the double quotes in me
• The Properties section is interesting, not sure i get why to use dot notation in one context and [] syntax in the other.
• mutli-line var declarations: For unassigned var's i kind of like the multi assignment
• use shortcuts: 👍 specifically this one was kind of cool (if (collection.length) instead of if(collection.length > 0))
• I like the standardized FIXME and TODO comment keywords (but guessing these are just bad practice to use)?
• Soft tabs: 2: 👍 👍 👍 I hate hard tabs
• Semicolons: Yep.
• Camel case Var names could be tough after so much ruby
• I think i like the leading underscore on private methods
• Prefixing jQuery var names with $ is interesting... i kind of like it...

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I actually really appreciate this guide! I love that they show bad examples and good examples for each topic! I also like that they point out what not to make things. I never know and then get weird things happening because I ised a key word.
I'm not sure if I get the difference when to use the dot notation yet vs subscript. Hopefully that will click.

Hoisting confuses me.

this. I'm also still getting familiar with. I was thinking it was just like self in Ruby but now I'm not so sure.

Bookmarking this!

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I am still confused about hoisting... I think I may prefer the explanation in chapter 15 about hoisting better this one.

I like the examples! I think I will definitely be referring back to this.

I like the comment prefix's. I think that is good for clarity.

Call me crazy but I see zero difference between the 3 examples on "End files with a single newline character."
// bad
(function(global) {
// ...stuff...
})(this);

// good
(function(global) {
// ...stuff...
})(this);↵

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This stylesheet seems to help you avoid some common pitfalls, unlike the thoughtbot guide for ruby, which just made clear some style choices. One place I really noticed this was in the Constructors section, when assigning methods to the prototype object.
Definitely a good reference, especially seeing how many other companies use it!

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I like the examples. I think for someone who may be new to a language can benefit a lot, I know I did. Some of these were a little more confusing, and took more glancing over. I did find a few spots where they suggested //bad, then a few examples later they would make a case for why it is ok. Think my JavaScript skills need some more work. Will be referencing more!

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I don't think that I am familiar with Javascript enough to really have an informed opinion, but I'll certainly follow the style guide, much smarter people than I came up with it, so I'm sure they had good reasons for their choices.

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