---
title: "JavaScript Functions: Explained for Beginners"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/javascript-functions-explained-for-beginners-99cjo9yox
source_url: https://ebenezer.hashnode.dev/javascript-functions-explained-for-beginners
type: article
source: "Hashnode"
author: "Ebenezer Don"
published: 2022-08-31T21:51:45.699Z
updated: 2022-09-01T05:50:29.481Z
tags: ["javascript"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 6
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# JavaScript Functions: Explained for Beginners

**[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@ebenezerdon](https://daily.dev/ebenezerdon) · 5 min read · 6 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

This tutorial addresses the following touchpoints: How to define functions in JavaScript. It is a way to run the same statements from multiple places in a program without having to rewrite them each time they are needed. A common way to do this is through the function keyword. To invoke our function, we only need to write its name undefined This returns undefined because our compiler ends the statement by assuming a semicolon after the return keyword.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ebenezerdon** · 1 upvotes

> I've expanded and further simplified this article on the NewDev blog: https://www.newdev.io/blog/javascript-functions-for-beginners

**@soumavadas221b** · 1 upvotes

> Awesome, i was searching for a article like this to revise the basics

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