{"id":182,"date":"2014-05-20T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-05-20T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:03:00","slug":"the-this-keyword-in-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/the-this-keyword-in-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;This&#8221; Keyword in JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This series of tutorials talk about context or the \u201cthis\u201d keyword in JavaScrtipt. It\u2019s a small piece of the JavaScript language, but it\u2019s really important, and it hangs people up sometimes because it\u2019s a little counterintuitive how \u201cthis\u201d works in JavaScript.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For background, JavaScript has a keyword &#8220;this,&#8221; as do, C++, Java, C# and many other languages. The problem is that the JavaScript version works rather differently, and this is a source of pain and confusion for many JavaScript developers. Since it&#8217;s an important part of the language, we should spend some time thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>Watch these videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewcircle.com\/s\/post\/1564\/context_or_the_this_keyword_in_javascript_tutorial\">https:\/\/thenewcircle.com\/s\/post\/1564\/context_or_the_this_keyword_in_javascript_tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This series of tutorials talk about context or the \u201cthis\u201d keyword in JavaScrtipt. It\u2019s a small piece of the JavaScript language, but it\u2019s really important, and it hangs people up sometimes because it\u2019s a little counterintuitive how \u201cthis\u201d works in JavaScript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-javascript"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.javascripttutorials.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}