what is the difference between a function and an expression?
Why would you use an expression over a regular function? vice versa?
I get the impression you’re getting us to answer your homework questions for you.
Here, go read this from 8 years ago: https://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/function-declarations-vs-function-expressions/
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I get the impression you’re getting us to answer your homework questions for you.
No! I’m a web developer who always has homework cause I’m an web autodidact! LOL.
And if you’ve noticed from one of my last postings. When you ask a simple foundational question on what something is in JS, you GET A MILLION DIFFERING OPTIONS (some of which are more valid than others).
I’m a newbie trying to sort through the proliferation towards expertise, that’s all. Thanks for the resource.
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I guess with regular functions you mean function declarations as opposed to function expressions… well a good rule of thumb is to always use function expressions (the article provided by @m_hutley explains why).
LOL yeah :-X
Please keep the replies on topic. I deleted some replies that were uncalled for.
OP has a very good question that I spent some time this morning digging into some documentation to try and answer and ended up learning a lot. I’m traveling today so I can’t give a good technical answer.
Functions and expressions are mathematical terms that I’ve personally always taken for granted and never really dug into what they actually mean at a deeper level in programming. This is a very interesting question, so please keep it civil.
There are good articles about this on MDN and 2ality. If 2ality thinks it’s enough to write a blog post on, it’s enough for a question here. That guy is one of the brightest in our industry.
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Thanks, that’s one of them. I think there was another. I can look for it when I get stable internet again.
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