From the course: JavaScript: Best Practices for Code Formatting
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Include leading spaces in comments - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: JavaScript: Best Practices for Code Formatting
Include leading spaces in comments
- [Instructor] Spaces are optional in comments, but you can include them to increase the legibility of your comments. In particular, it's a common practice to include a space between the starting comment characters and the commented code. I can already see that in the format for my start block. I'm going to add a single line comment before my variable just to mark this as a section that contains variables. So I'll add a blank line to keep some space from U strict, and then I can just do a single line, slash slash, and variables. Now at a glance, it takes a little work to see where the slashes end and the word variables begins. But if I click in here and stick a space after the second slash, it immediately becomes easier to recognize that as a comment containing the word variables. ESLint contains a spaced comment rule that let's me specify whether comments should include spaces. The documentation makes it clear that you…
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