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		masklinn on July 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide > We ended up choosing double quotes based on the fact that JSON already made that decision for us: it requires strings be double-quoted. My personal style guide is to copy Erlang: double quotes for text, single quotes for programmatic strings (atoms/symbols). The single quote is slightly more convenient to type on a qwerty keyboard, but text regularly contains single quotes (apostrophes). It also provides a semantic visual shortcut.

applecore on July 3, 2015 [–]

CoffeeScript follows a more common style: double-quoted strings for interpolated values and single-quoted strings are literal.

rhgraysonii on July 4, 2015 | [–]

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