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JavaScript A Real World Example

Takuya Hirata
Takuya Hirata
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Takuya Hirata
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getJSON function

I was wondering why 'getJSON' function worked even though that function has 'return' on line 2. Thank you!

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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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It's going to return the promise object. The rest of the code from line 3 to 20 is inside the promise object that is being returned. Anything after line 20 wouldn't have been run because it's after the return statement.