Comment by Stephan de Vries on "Should I use single or double quotes in JavaScript?" | Hashnode

Stephan de Vries

Full stack developer, enthusiastic about new technologies.

Nov 18, 2016

Single quotes seem to be more commonly used. Most javascript code standards follow this convention:

StandardJS: Single quotes for strings – except to avoid escaping.
Google JavaScript Style Guide: Ordinary string literals are delimited with single quotes ('), rather than double quotes (").
Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide: Use single quotes '' for strings.

Pavan Mehta

JS Development and Everything in Between

Feb 8, 2017

question being why? It's hard to convince my colleagues to use single quotes and this way we can't set the ESLint and not get any errors. They're way too reluctant to use double quotes.

That's a shame. It doesn't prevent you from using ESLint though. ESLint allows you to completely customise rules using a file called .eslintrc. This way you can enable the use of double quotes:

{
    "rules": {
        "quotes": ["double"]
    }
}

See http://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring.

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