It’s not going to be a rant as title might suggest you. I’ve been reading a book about Phonegap (now known as Apache Cordova), and came across a cool remark in the text:<\/p>\n
Javascript’s this is a bit
\nnuts, so it’s always better to refer to a variable that we know
\nwill always refer to the object.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI smiled. This remark was referring to a simple code that had this assignment:<\/p>\n
self = this<\/code><\/p>\nI’ve learned about JS “this” the hard way. Indeed, it’s not intuitive and goes against what developer learned from other languages. Anyway, I thought I know how it works well… until I read this quote. I went back online to refresh my knowledge, just to learn the damn thing again. \ud83d\ude42 Anyway, in case if you’re in the same boat, old friend MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is your friend. That’s the best article about “this” scope, strict and non-strict mode (who came up with these names!?), syntax for event handlers etc.<\/p>\n
Here’s the link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s not going to be a rant as title might suggest you. I’ve been reading a book about Phonegap (now known as Apache Cordova), and came across a cool remark in the text: Javascript’s this is a bit nuts, so … Continue reading