Var vs Let vs Const and the temporal dead zone
Learn the new ways of declaring variables introduced in ES6.
We'll cover the following
With the introduction of let
and const
in ES6, we can now better define our variables depending on our needs. During our JavaScript
primer we looked at the basic differences between these 3 keywords, now we will go into more detail.
Var
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Variables declared with the var
keyword are function scoped, which means that if we declare them inside a for
loop (which is a block scope), they will be available even outside of it.
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