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The tale of this and the JavaScript Developer

A this reference wants to cross an event callback but cannot do it without being used in the function body, so it asks a JavaScript developer to use it. The developer hesitates, afraid this might contain the wrong reference when they get to the other side…

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JavaScript: The Good Parts

Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset …

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