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Solution Review: Asynchronous Callback Functions

Solution Review: Asynchronous Callback Functions

This lesson will explain the solution to the problem in the previous lesson.

Solution #

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const getTodo = callback => {
    setTimeout(() => {
       callback ({ text: 'Complete Code Example' })
    }, 2000)
}
function display(){
getTodo(todo => {
    console.log(todo.text)
})
}
display()

Explanation #

Before we discuss the solution above, let’s discuss what the original code was doing.

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const getTodo = () => {
    setTimeout(() => {
        return { text: 'Complete Code Example' }
    }, 2000)
}
function display(){
    const todo = getTodo()
    console.log(todo.text)
}
display()

The getTodo function has the setTimeout function which returns ...

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