Closures
You will frequently encounter closures in Node.js. If you are just interested in the front-end, think back to our original example. If you want to write a function that considers user input at two separate stages of your app, you may want to consider a closure!
https://jsfiddle.net/semL3c66/
function packBox(item) {
// Code that puts item in the box
console.log(item);
function addressPackage(address) {
// Code that writes the address label
console.log(address + '. My initialised value was: ' + item + '');
}
return addressPackage;
}
var closureDemo = packBox('Initialising with a stored value')
// do "other things"
console.log('other things')
closureDemo('Ive done "other things" and now Im calling closureDemo')
// can also be run like:
var closureDemo = packBox('initilisation value')('data we might have retrieved from another site ajax call');
closureDemo;
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Created on: 28th October, 2022
Last updated: 28th October, 2022
Source: JavaScript Closures Explained by Mailing a Package
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