What Is a Closure in JavaScript
When working with closures you'll often hear the words "capture", "wrap", or "enclose". The entire idea behind a closure is to take a variable outside of the function and use that variable inside the function. A closure enables patterns for passing around functions that can manage buffers, caches, and values that can travel with the function.
Isn't this just accessing a global variable? Don't we need an enclosing function to create a closure?
function outer(i) {
let closureVar = '1';
return function inner() {
console.log(closureVar + i);
}
}
outer(1)();From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Closures
A closure is the combination of a function bundled together (enclosed) with references to its surrounding state (the lexical environment).
So this is still a valid example of a closure since it is a function that is accessing the state of its surrounding environment.