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by alaskamiller 3681 days ago
"An arrow function expression has a shorter syntax compared to function expressions and lexically binds the this value (does not bind its own this, arguments, super, or new.target). Arrow functions are always anonymous."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

3 comments

Why do you want it to be anonymous in this context? I get you can drop the `return`, but I don't see how you gain anything (apart from a tiny reduction typing and a small increase in incomprehensibility) by using anonymous functions to define components (I know the pattern is used a lot in the wild, but there seems to be zero reasoning for it; lexical binding isn't really relevant here)
In this case: You're potentially closing over node's "this inside of module body === exports" which seems more confusing than helpful..?
None of which, in this context, matters; none of those is in scope where the function is defined, so it won't be closing over them anyway.