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Posted August 5, 2015 4:53am by

I am not understanding what the and how the curly braces are used in node js. Inside of the method , {} as a param.

I want to know why the curly braces need to be wrapped around the param … the Node js app exercise ..

1 Answer

August 5, 2015 4:42pm

It sounds like it's a function or method that's taking in an object as one of it's arguments.

This is a common pattern for functions that have a lot of optional behaviors.

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