Posts tagged with 'iife'


Declare that function! But, how?

So, I read a blog post about declaring functions in JavaScript recently. It was just about technically correct as far as it went, but, ow, the way it was written hurt (missing semicolons, invalid code samples, etc). I’ll decline to link to it, thanks very much, but instead I’ll bring out its main points together with a recommendation or two (that, in fact, the original blog post did not). […]

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Globals, IIFEs, this, and strict mode

It started like this: I was reading some JavaScript code, written – he says charitably – some years ago. Much simplified, it looked something like this, with all identifiers renamed to protect the guilty: […]

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