Semicolons?

[jantimon]

Using semicolons is the javascript community convention.
All big community projects are using semicolons:

• Babel
• Node
• React
• Angular
• Gulp
• Grunt
• Webpack
• jQuery
• lodash
• Modernizr

Even the v8 engine itself is using them: https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/master/src/js/array.js

Could you please give me some examples of huge projects which might pass your "standard"?

If you are using React, Angular, Node, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, jQuery, Lodash, Modernizr, V8 (...) in the same project where you want to use feross/standard your brain has to switch between the real community standard and the feross/standard all the time.

[rstacruz]

• npm
• bootstrap
• karma

It isn't necessarily about the number of projects though. semicolon-less JavaScript has been increasing in adoption and more and more people prefer it now.

[jantimon]

It feels more like that the coffeescript users realised that coffeescript is dying and try to keep their habits.

And the number matters - if it is rejected by 90% of the github javascript code it does not deserve the name standard.

From the readme: "Adopting standard style means ranking the importance of code clarity and community conventions higher than personal style."

Placing semicolons is the community convention.

[yoshuawuyts]

Dupes #5, #78, #79, and #176. Check out the explanation on #78 in particular. You might find semistandard useful: https://github.com/Flet/semistandard.

See also https://github.com/feross/standard#i-disagree-with-rule-x-can-you-change-it