# Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFE) | kirupa.com

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/immediately-invoked-function-expressions-iife-kirupa-com/633674>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/immediately-invoked-function-expressions-iife-kirupa-com/633674 "2015-08-27T03:50:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/immediately-invoked-function-expressions-iife-kirupa-com/633674/1 "2015-08-27T03:50:27Z")

</div>

by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 6 February 2015

By now, you probably know enough about [functions in JavaScript](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/functions_in_javascript.htm) to be dangerously productive. Functions allow you to group statements together. If you give your function a name, you can re-use those grouped statements a whole bunch of times:

* * *
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5//immediately\_invoked\_function\_expressions\_iife.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5//immediately_invoked_function_expressions_iife.htm)