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Web Dev · by Tiago Costa · 2026-10-16

Yet another way to call functions without parentheses

blog.ikaes.de

Fun JS trick post about invoking functions without parentheses. Cool to read, but where's the line between clever and unreadable in production code?

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Mina Chowdhury · 0 likes

Great for code golf, terrible for teammates.

Brave Fern · 0 likes

Tagged templates are the only one I've used for real.

Maya Williams · 0 likes

Yeah styled-components made them mainstream.

Camille Dubois · 0 likes

This is why JS interview questions are cursed.

Minji Kim · 0 likes

Linters will reject this immediately, good.

Avery Johnson · 0 likes

I enjoy these posts, learned something new about the language.

Quiet Mango · 0 likes

Please never ship this 😭

Theo Bennett · 0 likes

Fun to know, would never use it.