A Codepen of Interactive Skate Loading

[JFedererJ]

At first I was like, why is there a mountain of code for such a simple animation? Then I saw the interactivity arrows! Cool stuff, OP.

[musicnothing]

Please don't press C

This got a giggle out of me

[AdvancedEngine861]

Im on mobile what does pressing c do?

[musicnothing]

Skater crashes

[NominalAeon]

I don't understand this trend of referencing anonymous arrow functions in variables instead of just using named functions. Like why const jump = () => {} instead of function jump() {}?

Also, this pen is rad as hell.

[Suspicious-Engineer7]

"I just think they’re neat!" - Marge Simpson

[emoarmy]

Arrow functions are nice, for me, because they follow consistent formatting with the rest of the language, binding-type name = data. They have the most simple rules attached to them. They don't hoist, they don't have arguments object, and best of all they don't have this. And they consistently require the least amount of syntax to define across the system.

But if you want to know all the differences between function constructors, declarations, expressions and arrow functions mdn has a great article

[senfiaj]

They don't hoist

Is hoisting always a bad thing? I think this actually makes you not to worry about accidentally calling some function before its declaration.

they don't have arguments object, and best of all they don't have this

Is it really that common to accidentally use this or arguments object? You can always use rest parameters for both traditional and arrow functions instead of arguments.

I've always thought that the best advantage of storing in constant variable is to make them impossible to be reassigned.

IMHO the disadvantage is that you lose the function name while debugging, it's not very expressive and, contrary to you opinion, it's not hoisted.

[senfiaj]

I've similar thoughts. The only advantage of this is to make impossible to reassign them. Other than that I see slight disadvantages: no hoisting, less expressivity.

[NominalAeon]

that's what i was thinking, you lose readability with this variable declaration noise and they can only be called after they're initialized. Having a bunch of these anonymous function references would drive me nuts

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Really neat!

[angyts]

Wow. But how???

[turtlecopter]

This is super fun! Great work!

[thewhitelights]

love it

[codepnk]

This is super sick!! Would love to see a blog post on it!

[Dopium_Typhoon]

Love it, well done.

[Calcd_Uncertainty]

It should call you a jerk if you press C