I would be ok with leaving the semicolons off, if you didn't have to do ridiculous things like prepend some lines with semicolons instead. It's easier for every

I would be ok with leaving the semicolons off, if you didn't have to do ridiculous things like prepend some lines with semicolons instead. It's easier for everyone just to put the damn semicolons in. It'd be nice if I had a linter to catch things like this. But really, it's not so hard to spot. I was bitten by missing semis often enough to start prepending [ and ( already, before I started just leaving them out entirely. No one's going to cry if you don't contribute to npm. When I contribute to your project, I'll follow whatever style you like, and if I find it to onerous, I'll move on. Life is tradeoffs.