JavaScript Closures - The Concept Interviewers Actually Test
Closures are one of the most asked-about JavaScript concepts in interviews, and also one of the most misunderstood. This blog explains what a closure actually is, why functions can remember variables from outside their own scope, and where closures show up in real code
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