Jason Orendorff looked into the JS spec, in detail …
JavaScript is rather hard to parse. Here is an in-depth accounting of its syntactic quirks, with an eye toward actually implementing a parser from scratch.
One quirk most JS devs have will have certainly heard of is Automatic Semicolon Insertion (ASI).
JavaScript’s Syntactic Quirks →
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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)
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