Carsten Behrens 3/17/2020

What is a Closure in JavaScript

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This article defines JavaScript closures as a combination of a function and its lexical environment, allowing inner functions to access an outer function's scope. It explains that closures are created at function creation time and includes a practical code example to illustrate the concept.

What is a Closure in JavaScript

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