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Comment by sushid | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure why/when the shift took place, but I do like it because it looks a lot cleaner than double quotes.

At work I use airbnb's linting configuration as shown here[1], which specifies the usage of single quotes for strings (no explanation for the preference though).

[1] https://github.com/airbnb/javascript

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In speculating on reasons behind the preference, my best guess is HTML. It seems more natural/idiomatic to write:

    var el = $('<a href="/" class="link">Link</a>');

rather than

    var el = $("<a href='/' class='link'>Link</a>");

let alone

    var el = $("<a href=\"/\" class=\"link\">Link</a>");

In this particular case, I'd write

    var el = $("<a href=/ class=link>Link</a>");

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