Re:A love letter to jQuery
by DonHopkins on Saturday February 27, 2016 @07:37PM
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As often as I program in JavaScript myself, and warn other people about the "this" binding problem (it's really hard to explain to newbies, but important), I get nailed by it all the time myself. I just can't seem to remember to go out of my way every time and use "var self = this;" or call bind, and it's quite easy to miss it when visually inspecting code. It's the first thing I look for when things goes inexplicably wrong. The second thing is variables changing out from under closures in loops.
I am looking forward to the time that most major browsers support => and let.
However, I disagree with your number (1). First, you shouldn't have to use "var self = this;" very often, unless this is your preferred style. Many JS libraries will let you pass in the context as the final argument in a function call. And if you can't do this, you should look to `bind` and `apply`, they're very handy for handling contexts [1].
I do strongly agree with your (2). But if I'm not mistaken, the latest versions of many browsers do support block scope already. I know Chrome does, and Firefox and Edge may as well.
1. http://javascriptissexy.com/javascript-apply-call-and-bind-m...