callback hell
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[edit ]Noun
[edit ]- (programming , colloquial ) (mostly of the JavaScript language) The situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, potentially making it difficult to understand and maintain the code.
- 2015, Remo H. Jansen, Learning TypeScript[1] :
- 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.
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[edit ]situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks