Introduction

In this new post I’m going to talk about “closures”. Just like hoisting, closures are a key concept to JavaScript, since they allow to create functions that bind the variables within a scope. Closures are usually used to build callback functions.

A good definition is available on the Mozilla Developers Network website, on which this post is entirely based.

Closures are functions that refer to independent (free) variables. In other words, the function defined …

Introduction

In this post I am going to talk about JavaScript. Recently I rediscovered this programming language, after a long time distance caused mainly by its quirks. However while working on my thesis I started to enjoy this language and I realized how much powerful it can be, if used in the correct way.

“Do you want to work with the Web? Better learn JavaScript” said once a teacher of mine.

Therefore with a series of posts I’m going to analyze those little …