Parameters in JavaScript

Hi Dana, parameters allow you to pass in arguments to a function to carry out a specific task.

Let's say you want to create a calculator app and one of the features was finding the sum of two numbers, you'd have the following function with two parameters, a and b:

function add(a, b) { return a+b; }

You can then do add(4,8); to find the sum of 4+8. In this way, the parameters a and b act as references to the arguments you pass into the function i.e. a = 4 and b = 8. How does this help in JavaScript? You can reuse the function again and again with different values for a and b instead of writing out:

var a = 4; var b = 8; var sum = a+ b;

which helps when it comes to writing clean, readable code. Hope this helps!