Why shall I convert my utility functions into arrow functions?? I really don't see the point.

I think it is way more descriptive to read a line going
"export function buildEntity(){"
Instead of
"export const buildEntity = () => {"

When are you using arrow functions? Do you see any benefits there?

Who said that you should do that?

Js/Ts?
Benefit: no .bind(this) required. Behave as expected.

But honestly, readability is a function of how much you're used to something. Nothing else.

Readability arguments are bullshit by design, because the readability gauge is always biased.

the decorator pattern works slightly better with lambda assignment.

@lorentz wait, does it mean that you can’t use a js function as a lambda?

It’s preference

This is literally what i was fucking mad about in the beginning but i found out react is a completely different mindset shift (C++ like) than OOP such as angular

This is why arrow functions in procedural programming (react) is used while in OOP a function syntax is used

@Lensflare no, I think JS functions are objects to begin with. You can assign functions to variables.

I know if you take functions out of a class and assign them to something else they'll forget what class they came from so you have to bind them to an instance and that's annoying

I don't know if a random function and a lambda have a difference. they probably do

I always view lambdas as more lightweight, also less typing. so I favour them. they also have less weird side effects that might be difficult to anticipate

but the fact we have the stupid export syntax now I guess invalidates that

@jestdotty I think C++ does that too. I seem to remember that calling a function on a class actually inserts the first parameter as "this". It is hidden. But if you call the function explicitly you can provide the first parameter to a class instance to make the call. At least that is my memory. It might be faulty.

@Demolishun that’s what I was thinking too. Other languages do it like that too. But js is, as we all know, special.

@Lensflare not sure about JS (probably), but in Python I could create variables on a function object. I actually used that feature to join Python to a game engine that had calls from another scripting language. I needed the python function to be aware of the class the call came from. So I stored the class in a variable on the function itself from the C++ side. I cannot remember exactly how the implementation worked in my mind though.

i use allow functions whenever the method body is trivial enough to be expressed in one single line without overcomplicating things.