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Limitations of Arrow Functions: Anonymous and Not a Constructor

Explore the limitations of arrow functions in JavaScript, focusing on their true anonymity and inability to act as constructors. Understand why these constraints affect how and when to use arrow functions effectively in your code, helping you make informed decisions between arrow and traditional function expressions.

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Due to the concise and expressive nature of arrow functions, we’ll be tempted to use them instead of anonymous functions. However, the choice should not be due to infatuation. Learning about the limitations of arrow functions will help you make an educated choice between anonymous functions and arrow functions.

Following are some of the limitations of using arrow functions.

  1. They are only anonymous.
  2. They are not constructors.
  3. new.target is lexically scoped.
  4. There is no prototype property.
  5. They can’t be
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