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Mastering JavaScript

You're reading from   Mastering JavaScript Explore and master modern JavaScript techniques in order to build large-scale web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785281341
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ved Antani Ved Antani
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JavaScript Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Functions, Closures, and Modules 3. Data Structures and Manipulation 4. Object-Oriented JavaScript 5. JavaScript Patterns 6. Testing and Debugging 7. ECMAScript 6 8. DOM Manipulation and Events 9. Server-Side JavaScript Index

Function declarations versus function expressions


We saw two ways by which functions are defined. Though they both serve identical purposes, there is a difference between these two types of declarations. Check the following example:

//Function expression
functionOne();
//Error
//"TypeError: functionOne is not a function

var functionOne = function() {
  console.log("functionOne");
};
//Function declaration
functionTwo();
//No error
//Prints - functionTwo

function functionTwo() {
  console.log("functionTwo");
}

A function declaration is processed when execution enters the context in which it appears before any step-by-step code is executed. The function that it creates is given a proper name (functionTwo() in the preceding example) and this name is put in the scope in which the declaration appears. As it's processed before any step-by-step code in the same context, calling functionTwo() before defining it works without an error.

However, functionOne() is an anonymous function expression, evaluated...

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