callback hell

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callback hell (uncountable)

  1. (programming, colloquial) The situation (chiefly in JavaScript) where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, 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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