JavaScript open brace in the same line

Question

I remember there is a convention/recommendation to put opening brace in the same line, because of the way JavaScript adds a semicolon or something.

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Answer 1

The JavaScript Garden has a chapter about automatic semicolon insertion. It gives good examples when semicolons are added automatically:

JavaScript is not a semicolon-less language, it in fact needs the semicolons in order to understand the source code. Therefore the JavaScript parser automatically inserts them whenever it encounters a parse error due to a missing semicolon.

In your example JavaScript wouldn't encounter an error due to a missing semicolon though.