What is the use of the JavaScript 'bind' method?

Question

What is the use of bind() in JavaScript?

Answer 1

Variables has local and global scopes. Let's suppose that we have two variables with the same name. One is globally defined and the other is defined inside a function closure and we want to get the variable value which is inside the function closure. In that case we use this bind() method. Please see the simple example below:

var x = 9; // this refers to global "window" object here in the browser
var person = {
  x: 81,
  getX: function() {
    return this.x;
  }
};

var y = person.getX; // It will return 9, because it will call global value of x(var x=9).

var x2 = y.bind(person); // It will return 81, because it will call local value of x, which is defined in the object called person(x=81).

document.getElementById("demo1").innerHTML = y();
document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML = x2();

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