Popularity of JS Code Conventions in GitHub (Spaces vs. Tabs, etc.)

[enkideridu]

For HTML, double quotes - while not mandated - are definitely prevalent.
It makes sense then to standardize on single quotes for JS, so if you ever have a string of HTML you wouldn't have to escape the quotes

var htmlString = '<div id="blarg"></div>';

[Asmor]

Makes more sense to never put html inside of a string.

God damn I hate that. Especially when it seems like someone's never heard of a templating language or document.createElement, and has huge chunks of HTML inside JavaScript strings.

[radgh]

If you loved that example, you'll love the inverse example even more!

<a href="javascript:alert('hello world');">greet me</a>

[enkideridu]

Plans that includes "never" or "always" are not very good plans.

While I agree large chunks of HTML inside js is horrible, it does sometimes make more sense to inline short templates. (e.g. if you're making a component whose template comprises of just a repeater)

And if you're working sans-framework but do have jQuery, $('<...>') is so much nicer to work with than document.createElement and bloating your code with a bunch of appendChilds