ES2015 introduces two new ways to declare variables. The keywords let and const. If you’re not familiar with these yet, here are the basics of these two keywords.

let

let is similar to var. It allows us to declare variables in our local scope. It’s used the same way, let x = 4;. The differences are that let is:

• not hoisted
• block-scoped

Not Hoisted

We’ve seen that variable declarations using var get hoisted to the top of their scope.