What is the purpose of wrapping whole Javascript files in anonymous functions like “(function(){ … })()”?

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I have been reading a lot of Javascript lately and I have been noticing that the whole file is wrapped like the following in the .js files to be imported.

(function() {
    ... 
    code
    ...
})();

What is the reason for doing this rather than a simple set of constructor functions?

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