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Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide by AgentME on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:36AM (#9823494)
The only code affected by this would be code that uses typeof to check for the existence of a variable the same code defines later, which sounds like dumb code to begin with. I don't think there's any valid uses of typeof on possibly undefined variables besides checking for browser built-ins.
Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide by mAritz on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:48AM (#9850012)
Using typeof(foo) === "undefined" is actually something that comes from back when it was pretty common to pollute the global namespace. There were actual javascript plugins/libraries/snippets that defined undefined and thus broke code that compared to it.