Undefined trying to access a variable of a class written in JS

I am trying to make this code works properly:

class Reminder {

  constructor(text) {
    this.text = text;
  }

  remindMe(delay) {
    setTimeout(function() {
      console.log(`Your reminder after ${delay} seconds is: ${this.text}`);
    }, delay * 1000);
  }

}

//shows Reminder {text: "Hello World"}
const example = new Reminder("Hello world"); 

//shows undefined
console.log(example);

// shows "Your reminder after 3 seconds is: undefined"
console.log(example.remindMe(3));

I have been without working with classes a lot of time, and I know is undefined because the method remindMe doesnt have access to the constructor, because it doesnt have a getter. But I have tried to create a getter and it didnt leave me to call it from the method remindMe, I tried to do something like this:

remindMe(delay) {
  setTimeout(function () {
    console.log(`Your reminder after ${delay} seconds is: ${getText()});
  }, delay * 1000);
}

Any idea about where is the mistake? Thanks.

Answer

1. example is being logged in your code (as you can see from the snippet). It logs:

   {
     "text": "Hello world"
   }
   

2. remindMe doesn’t explicitly return anything so defaults to undefined (that’s the first undefined in your output). (Note: since remindMe is also a function containing a timeout it still wouldn’t work because you’re logging immediately, and the function only completes after three seconds. Plus it contains its own console.log so there’s no need to log the result of calling the function anyway.)

3. this won’t work as you want it to in that setTimeout because the context has changed. Use an arrow function instead – they have no this of their own and “borrow” this from its outer lexical environment.

class Reminder {

  constructor(text) {
    this.text = text;
  }

  remindMe(delay) {
    setTimeout(() => {
      console.log(`Your reminder after ${delay} seconds is: ${this.text}`);
    }, delay * 1000);
  }

}

const example = new Reminder("Hello world"); 
console.log(example);
example.remindMe(3);