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JavaScript Functions — Understanding The Basics

Md Abdur Razzak on March 11, 2024

What is a Function? A function is a subprogram designed to perform a particular task. When a function is called, it gets run. We refer to this as...
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Jon Randy 🎖️ • • Edited

We are assigning a variable value to the anonymous function object in the example below.

It's important to point out that this action makes the function cease to be anonymous - it will acquire the name of the variable:

// True anonymous function - no name
console.log( (function() {}).name ) // empty string - anonymous

// Anonymous function assigned to a var
// now had a name, not anonymous
const myFunc = function() {}
console.log(myFunc.name) // 'myFunc' - not anonymous any more
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So, in your example, the variable name does not contain an anonymous function, rather a named one.

More on anonymous functions here:

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