This kind of reminded me of the module pattern [1] popular with ye olde jQuery plugins. Just realized that hooks try to emulate what JS does natively, which is

This kind of reminded me of the module pattern [1] popular with ye olde jQuery plugins. Just realized that hooks try to emulate what JS does natively, which is keeping track of all local variables in a functions calling scope. Meaning that if that function returns an object, that Object still has access to all the variables declared when that function run. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17776940/javascript-module-pattern-with-example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17776940/javascript-modu...