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Replies for: Really nice article! One thing I was confused about was invoke bar. bar returns a setTimeout function. Enter fullscreen mode Ex...

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Ibrahim Joseph •

Yes, It does Jonas, so lets say


let id = setTimeout( () => {
return "hey"}, 1000);

console.log(id) // you will get 1

let id2 = setTimeout( () => {
return "hey"}, 1000);

console.log(id2) // you will get 2
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thamer belfkih •

thank guys to point out this detail, in the same context what's the purpose of this Id and it is used by the web API or the call stack for some purpose? thanks in advance