March 21, 2024, 6:54 a.m. | Manikandan K

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In JavaScript, closures are a powerful and often misunderstood concept. They play a crucial role in maintaining data privacy, enabling functional programming patterns, and facilitating the creation of robust and modular code. In this article, we'll explore closures in-depth through a practical example.





Introduction to Closures:


A closure is formed when a function retains access to its lexical scope even after the outer function has finished executing. This means that the inner function has access to variables and parameters of …

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