Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

TIL brackets breaking elements in JavaScript

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TAGS: javascript linter

I always forget about this edge-case:


// returns the object
return {
hello : "world"
}

// undefined, because of the
return
{
hello : "world"
}

Because of automatic semicolon insertion.

The "automatic semicolon insertion" it does is an error correction process.

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