What does this "(function(){});", a function inside brackets, mean in javascript?

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Hi All

I don't know what the following does:

(function(){
  // Do something here
  ...
})(someWord) //Why is this here?;

My questions are:

1. What's the meaning of putting a function inside brackets .i.e. (function(){});?
2. What do the set of brackets do at the end of a function?

I usually see these in jquery codes, and some other javascript libraries.

Answer 1

You're immediately calling an anonymus function with a specific parameter.

An example:

(function(name){
  alert(name);
})('peter')

This alerts "peter".

In the case of jQuery you might pass jQuery as a parameter and use $ in your function. So you can still use jQuery in noConflict-mode but use the handy $:

jQuery.noConflict()
(function($){
  var obj = $('<div/>', { id: 'someId' });
})(jQuery)