Please just don’t make the opinionated formatted use two space indentation. That is one of the craziest recent trends in the JS ecosystem.

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azemetre 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Can you say what you’d prefer and why? I often use very large fonts, well large compared to my peers, when coding and really prefer tabs as I can define their width myself.

	▲	whs 7 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not OP, but I also tabs. Usually I set tab to 4 spaces as 2 space is too little to clearly see the indentation, but in frontend projects usually I'd need to set it to 2 as otherwise the JSX layout would easily overflow horizontally. JS also prefer callback-style code that requires another indentation, which might not always be possible to replace with await.
	▲	tacitusarc 7 months ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Tabs, four spaces, hell even three spaces. I care very little about formatting as long as I can understand quickly what I’m looking at. So basically anything greater than two spaces.
	▲	DecoySalamander 7 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Spaces in indentation feel like an artifact of bygone era when we didn't have proper tooling and had to do everything manually, one keystroke at a time. Personally I just hit TAB and commit whatever is in default config of autoformatter utility.

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bn-l 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Same here. It encourages deep indentation and at the same time makes the indents harder to quickly parse.

Also single bloody quotes. Why?

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KPGv2 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

> Also single bloody quotes. Why?

Because double quotes requires two keystrokes. Single quotes requires one. The only defense of double quotes is an appeal to history.

	▲	Timon3 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Not everyone uses the same keyboard you do. With a German layout it's much easier for me to type double quotes. That's not to say everyone should use them, but reality is more nuanced than you make it seem.

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brabel 7 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can see why people may take issue with tabs VS spaces, that's as old a debate as programming languages themselves. But taking issue with single quotes is just on another level of bike shedding! WTF is wrong with single quotes???

	▲	hamandcheese 7 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Single quotes are quite a common English punctuation character. Particularly in the strings I tend to hardcode in programs, it is way more likely that I need to write a single quote than I do a double quote. When that happens, I have to escape the quote (if the language even allows escapes in single quoted strings) or change the whole string to double quotes. Because typing a single quote will break parsing, it's also hard for tooling to assist. If I put a single quote unescaped, the auto formatter will probably barf.
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rizky05 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

I prefer backtick.

	▲	bn-l 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		The truly patrician choice.