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callback hell en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) The situation (chiefly in JavaScript) where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, making it difficult to understand and maintain the code.
    • However, the use of callbacks can lead to a maintainability issue known as callback hell. We will now write a real-life example to showcase what a callback hell is and how easily we can end up dealing with it. 2015, Remo H. Jansen, Learning TypeScript:

Relateds

dependency hell · DLL hell

Translations (2)

pl callback hell (situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks) · cmn 回調地獄 /回调地狱 (situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks)