Question

In a lot of code, it’s very common to see an init function be declared, like so:

var someObject = {

    // What is this for?
    init: function () {
        // Call here.
    }
};

Are there anything particularly special about the init function that I should know?

Answer 1

For some frameworks perhaps (though prototype and backbone use initialize instead), but there is nothing special about the init functions in plain old javascript