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JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM (Retiring) Traversing the DOM Getting the First and Last Child

Heather Gray
Heather Gray
6,225 Points
Posted by Heather Gray
Heather Gray
6,225 Points

Old JavaScript functions?

Why in this lesson are we not using arrow functions or other ES6 functions? I get confused because we were taught these cool new ES6 features in the previous module but they're not used.

2 Answers

Routine Poutine
Routine Poutine
26,050 Points
Routine Poutine
Routine Poutine
26,050 Points

E6 adds 'syntactic sugar' with arrow functions, but doesn't require that you use them. Maybe in some cases it's more readable to do a function declaration or expression. That's my guess. I'm curious as to what someone more experienced might say.