Chapter 5. Closing in on closures
In this chapter we discuss
- What closures are and how they work
- Using closures to simplify development
- Improving performance using closures
- Solving common scoping issues with closures
Closely tied to the functions that we learned all about in the previous chapters, closures are a defining feature of JavaScript. While scores of page authors get along writing on-page script without understanding the benefits of closures, the use of closures can not only help us reduce the amount and complexity of the script necessary to add advanced features to our pages, they allow us to do things that would simply not be possible, or would simply be too complex to be feasible, without them. The landscape of the language, ...
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