Consider StandardJS as an alternative to AirBNB

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Consider StandardJS as an alternative to AirBNB

antony opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Antony Jones commented 8 years ago

Less popular than AirBNB's guide, but a better idea:

Advantages:

You can npm install --save-dev standard, then standard as part of your npm test to ensure code is written in a standard way.
No bikeshedding! Bikeshedding is a real time-killer, endless discussions about what styles to adopt.
No configuration. For the reasons above, configuration is actually prohibited! One style - no arguments.

Florian Wendelborn · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 01 2016 05:38:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

👎 Because it uses the highly uncommon "no semicolon" rule. I know it's fine and mostly doesn't really differ, but it's not the "default" way to write JavaScript.

Antony Jones · Answer 2 · Thu Sep 01 2016 05:41:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I don't think there is a 'default' way to write JavaScript. Semicolons are a bit of a legacy from a long time ago. I've been programming Java apps using Groovy for the last 8 years, which drops semicolons, and when I moved to NodeJS, I looked for the same thing.

I agree it's not the default way, but if I was learning from 0, which is what this guide is about, I'd prefer to learn without.

Florian Wendelborn · Answer 3 · Thu Sep 01 2016 05:44:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sure, I totally get why you don't like them. But AFAIK this project is about getting started ASAP and "as easy/normal as possible", not getting started "as good as possible". And with default I mean, that it feels like 99% of JS code has semicolons.

Faraz · Answer 4 · Thu Sep 01 2016 05:51:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the discussion. Since we already have a solution for this, and the proposed solution is not 10x better, our time is better spent writing the upcoming sections.

Also the playbook is not about learning from 0. It doesn't teach you JavaScript. It just helps you enter the node ecosystem without getting overwhelmed.

Also if someone did learn no-semicolons as a result of the playbook recommendation, then they would undoubtedly be confused when they read most JS code.