ES6 Class: access to ‘this’ with ‘addEventListener’ applied on method [duplicate]

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This is a general JS issue, but the core of it is that

this.elm.addEventListener('click', this.sayHello);

is no different than

var fn = this.sayHello;
this.elm.addEventListener('click', fn);

You are passing a function as the event handler, but have not ensured that when fn is called that this will be set to your desired value. The easiest way to do this in ES5 would be

this.elm.addEventListener('click', this.sayHello.bind(this));

or in ES6, using an arrow function:

this.elm.addEventListener('click', evt => this.sayHello(evt));

Note however that both of these solutions will break your (already slightly broken) logic in kill because

this.elm.removeEventListener('click', /* what? */);

You don’t have any reference to the function that you attached anymore, so you have no way of removing the event handler.

I’d suggest two options:

// Create a new function that is bound, and give it a new name
// so that the 'this.sayHello()' call still works.
this.boundSayHello = evt => this.sayHello(evt);
this.elm.addEventListener('click', this.boundSayHello);
this.elm.removeEventListener('click', this.boundSayHello);

or

// Bind the function with the same name and use `.bind` instead of the
// arrow function option.
this.sayHello = this.sayHello.bind(this);
this.elm.addEventListener('click', this.sayHello);
this.elm.removeEventListener('click', this.sayHello);

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