jQuery is hardly a good benchmark for current js style. You'll find completely d...

sillysaurus3 · on June 30, 2017

JS is the new C++. It's several different languages depending on which subset you use: jQuery style, pyramid callbacks, promises, async/await, etc.

z3t4 · on June 30, 2017

always name your anonymous functions. that way it will be easier to break them out of the pyramid, make them testable, and easier to debug.

OJFord · on July 1, 2017

... and it will also make them not anonymous functions :)

z3t4 · on July 3, 2017

A named "anonymous" function (lets call it lamda function to make it less confusing) is still a lamda function, but with a name ... It can not be called from elsewhere. So you get all the benefits from lamda functions! There's no advantage to not naming variables.

  var fs = require("fs");
  fs.readFile("somefile.txt", function readSomeFile(err, text) {
    if(err) throw err;
    else console.log(data);
  }