JSJ 449: The Things Every JavaScript Developer Must Know
JavaScript Jabber
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JavaScript and Closures
Closures are something that you have to know as a JavaScript developer. If you don't understand closures, I'm sorry that you've been writing it in a painful way. The event loop is absolutely important. You just that is why JavaScript is performant as a server side language and why it can work at all as a browser language. It might be a file downloading or some other interaction where the user might be waiting for an AJAX message before they get there. But whenever something happens, then it's put into a queue by the browser. So if you'd like to explain how this works, we'll talk about those topics next.
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