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So you can use the arrow function to get access to the parent context and still access the element you have attached the listener to... Please don't stop using this just because you don't know how a lib works.
The code is correct. This is how their API is written. I need the
this
from thefunction
inside theevents.on
method, not the parent scope.It works the same way jQuery's
this
context works here:You can't write an arrow function for these.
Actually,
jQuery
calls the callback of theelement
'sthis
passed into it viaapply
andcall
. Check it out: code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.jsIn jquerys events
this
is the same asevent.delegateTarget
: api.jquery.com/event.delegateTarget/So you can use the arrow function to get access to the parent context and still access the element you have attached the listener to... Please don't stop using
this
just because you don't know how a lib works.