{"id":36558,"date":"2018-12-26T21:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=36558"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:55:01","slug":"web-programming-the-immediately-invoked-function-expression-iife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/web-programming-the-immediately-invoked-function-expression-iife\/","title":{"rendered":"Web programming: the immediately invoked function expression (IIFE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about web programming: the tutor brings up IIFE.<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s been my experience that a function need be called to run, but perhaps not always. Apparently, in JavaScript, the construction<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:16px\">\n(function(){<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n<em>function code lines<\/em><br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n})();<\/div>\n<p>will run spontaneously.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried it with success:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Glossary\/IIFE\">mozilla.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about web programming: the tutor brings up IIFE. It&#8217;s been my experience that a function &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/web-programming-the-immediately-invoked-function-expression-iife\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web programming: the immediately invoked function expression (IIFE)<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36562,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions\/36562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}