David Aragon – jsDay 2014 / The international Javascript Conference Tue, 13 May 2014 21:24:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 A Little This, a Little _that: Understanding Scope in JavaScript /talk/a-little-this-a-little-_that-understanding-scope-in-javascript/ Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:24:31 +0000 /?post_type=talk&p=275 Scope is one of the most critical concepts in JavaScript, but even seasoned front-end developers have trouble with the the meaning of `this`. It doesn’t have to be this way. Once you learn the few simple rules that govern JavaScript scope, your code will become more precise and flexible.

Let’s take a deep dive into what scoping means in JavaScript. In this talk you’ll learn why scope is critical to applications running in a browser environment, what the heck all this talk of `this` and `_that` is about, as well as how to avoid some pitfalls even the experts make.

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