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by clintonc 4010 days ago
My rationale for single quotes is also that JSON chose for you -- if you have JSON-formatted strings in your javascript and you use single quotes for your strings, you don't have to escape the double quotes.
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I'd find it very worrying that you have JSON-formatted strings in JS code. Why would you do that, when there's also a native representation?
Do you do that more or less frequently than writing strings with apostrophes?