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		clintonc on July 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide My rationale for single quotes is also that JSON chose for you -- if you have JSON-formatted strings in your javascript and you use single quotes for your strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes.

joepie91_ on July 3, 2015 | [–]

I'd find it very worrying that you have JSON-formatted strings in JS code. Why would you do that, when there's also a native representation?

phpnode on July 3, 2015 | [–]

Do you do that more or less frequently than writing strings with apostrophes?

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