Mat has kept busy pretty during his decade and a half of working on the web: from a member of the jQuery Team, to an editor of the HTML specification, to a speaker at conferences like An Event Apart and Smashing, to two-time author for A Book Apart and Google’s web.dev on the topics of images and JavaScript.
As an independent consultant, Mat’s goal is to ensure that meaningful, well-structured content can reach users in any browsing context—regardless of the size of their screen, the speed of their internet connection, age of their device, or the combination of browsers and assistive technologies they use to experience the web.
In the second part of his series, Mat Marquis explains what “this” actually is and helps you to understand what it equates to, based on various contexts.
JavaScript’s “this” keyword trips up all developers — junior and senior. In the first of two parts, Mat Marquis goes deep on the groundwork you need to better understand “this” and how it works.
