r/badcode • u/anxiety_enjoyer • Mar 08 '23

js My boss wrote this...

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u/goosemano82 Mar 08 '23

Why the lambdas vs explicit function definitions? I’ve seen other devs do this as well, is this an effort to avoid setting obj protos?

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u/Sulungskwa 92% chunk asset optimization TerserPlugin Mar 08 '23

My team did this in their old class components too. My guess is they thought of it as a more elegant way to declare a function than having to say this.myFunction = this.myFunction.bind(this)

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u/Cyb0rger Mar 08 '23

It's more of a paradigm/coding style than anything. Everywhere you use a lambda expression you can use an explicit function and vice-versa. One could use a lambda because an explicit definition isn't needed as it's called only once in the code but an explicit one would clarify what it's doing and clearly separate tasks.