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Re:Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript by arethuza on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:37AM (#18815852)
Thanks - that's a decent explanation for favouring one over the other.

I rather dislike "best practices" that don't provide any explanation of what they are recommending.

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Re:Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript by jrockway on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:44AM (#18815908)
I mean, it's because it doesn't matter. Picking one is valuable for consistency (no odd diffs when refactoring). Which one you pick doesn't matter.
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Re:Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript by ficklepickle on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:54PM (#18821340)
The behavior is slightly different. "\n" is a newline, '\n' is a backslash and an n.
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Re:Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript by lauritzsh on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:36AM (#18823057)
Not in JavaScript. \n is treated as a newline in both cases. Try it out in the console.
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Re:Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript by chrisweekly on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:00PM (#18818034)
... Unless you would prefer to skip the extra keypress required for ".
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