Why do we use parentheses here?

[elkaddouri.od]

Why do we use parentheses here? NOT red color. The parentheses at he end of the function.

const getMousePosition = (x, y) => ({ x, y });

Why not like this:

const getMousePosition = (x, y) => { x, y };

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Challenge: Write Concise Object Literal Declarations Using Object Property Shorthand

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[JeremyLT]

@elkaddouri.od

Why not like this:

What happens when you try it?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Functions/Arrow_functions#returning_object_literals

[elkaddouri.od]

Thanks for the link!
Oke I think I understand it, it doesn’t treat it as a object. So the output of the function is not a object if you don’t use the parenthesis. Correct?

[JeremyLT]

Yup. Just {} means that you are making a function body that requires the return keyword.

[elkaddouri.od]

Thank you @JeremyLT !