[6.x] Support executing closures outside of the current selector scope #784
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There are scenarios, particularly when writing logic to encapsulate components that don't necessarily have a linear structure in the dom, that you might want to run certain logic outside of your current selector scope. This function simply executes a closure outside of the current scope.
Consider the following html generated from a js component from a popular react framework:
To interact with this component before you had to do something like this:
Now the code will look something like this:
Closes #783