Comparison to AirBnb Style Guide

[justin808]

@feross Any comparison to the AirBnb style guide?

It would be awesome to see your version of a fork of that which meets your idea of a JavaScript coding standard. I'm setting up a project for a new startup, so I'm hoping to get this as right as possible from the get-go.

AirBnb has this comment about semicolons: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript#semicolons

// bad
(function() {
  var name = 'Skywalker'
  return name
})()

// good
(function() {
  var name = 'Skywalker';
  return name;
})();

// good (guards against the function becoming an argument when two files with IIFEs are concatenated)
;(function() {
  var name = 'Skywalker';
  return name;
})();

[rlidwka]

I assume the "good one" would be this:

;(function() {
  var name = 'Skywalker'
  return name
})()

[feross]

The main difference is that standard is a tool, not just a style guide. standard can automatically check, and even format, your code.

Maybe eventually someone will write up a more verbose style guide for standard, but for now the best way to learn about it is to install it and run it against your code :)