Question

Is there any way to pass this into an Immediately-Invoked Function Expression, without resolving to var that = this (which isn’t applicable on some cases)?

Tried the following but with no luck:

(function(that) {
    console.log(that);
})(this)

Answer 1

You might be able to use call or apply for this purpose. For example:

(function() {
    console.log(this); // whatever that was specified in the "call" method
}).call(this);