It’s 2023, Time to Replace All Your Regular Functions with Arrow Functions
Arrow functions were introduced in ECMAScript 6 (ES6 or ES2015) as a new, shorter way to write function expressions. However, it’s important to note that arrow functions are NOT a replacement for regular functions.
It’s not April 1st but the title of this article is a joke. I saw a similar post a while back and thought I’d make a play on it for the clicks 😁
It can be frustrating to see some new programmers or bootcamp graduates believe that regular functions old and that arrow functions are the new way of writing functions. Lambda or arrow functions exist in many programming languages, but that doesn’t mean they replace all functions with them.
While arrow functions are a great and necessary addition to JavaScript, it’s important to understand how they differ from regular functions and when to use each type of function.
NOTE: There are many more differences than the one in this article but I’m only going to go through a few of them.
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Before we begin
Let’s start off by explaining some terminology.
