JavaScript 'this' Keyword Explained

In this video I'll be explaining in the simplest terms what the "this" keyword is in JavaScript. It's not as hard as many developers may think 🙂

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[philippec]

Oh my god ! You made it so simple and easy to understand something I’ve spent hours trying to understand properly ! Thanks man !

[boyacosweep]

Please make more videos explaining this stuff. I must have watched like 7 in which they all explained it in the most confusing way or only within the context of objects. The freecodecamp one was BRUTAL.

[sohimurosohimuro]

The only video on Youtube that actually did explain what "this" is. Thank You!

[TheLuckyyy]

The part with event listeners is exactly what i was looking for and didnt find in any other tutorial. Now i got it. Thanks.

[jamesmassa]

This video was informative. Thanks again, Dom!

[jmmmmmmmmmk]

Thank you you explained this very well

[emperoroftheearth]

Thanks .. i understood it well now. Thanks again

[justtestingmycurrentskills]

Dcode, can you make a tier list of programming languages or frameworks? Would be interesting to hear your opinion.

[aravindelumalai]

what theme for editor you are using? its simply looks cool

[Pareshbpatel]

Nice introduction to the "this" keyword/concept. Thanks, Dom.

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[starterdev]

Please make a video about idempotent, and other concepts like this

[rostyslav]

5:36 - the most confusing part of JS 'this' keyword - is arrow functions

[YellowPanamka]

Man if i had teacher like you before, i would have doctor's degree in programming already.

[rolandpierrelouis]

Hi my friend..thanks for this great video. Do you have some videos about Design Patterns please ?

[ChrisAthanas]

Speaking about the keyword "this" and the location "this" is S U P E R C O N F U S I N G

[henryshen]

I found that it will work for function(){}, but if you use ()=>{} the arrow function won't work. Video around 3:20

[amonraii]

Who you're kidding man. If you're 50 years old, then I'm Marlin Brando

[jaybanks]

Don't understand why you would use "this" simply for readability reasons, given that it can mean different things when used in different circumstances, and it isn't always obvious in which context it is being used. For many years, I have kind of stayed on the server side, because it seemed like Javascript was developed by teens that made it up as they went along. Stuff like "this" makes me think I was right.

[DavidJJJ]

How do you know a programming language is broken? It takes almost 8 minutes to describe the meaning of one word.