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Yep that‘s it. Most of the javascript world is very open to beginners and not that worried about being strictly technically correct, when it doesn‘t really matter. A callback is pretty much any function that you pass as an argument. It‘s still not as much a programming language community as it is a website making community.


Callback is technically correct. The specific type of callback that parent has in mind is a continuation callback.

Maybe you should check your bias about the JS world (as well as your definitions).




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