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JavaScript Private Fields and TypeScript

Learn how JavaScript ES6 introduces private fields with the hash symbol and compare this approach to TypeScript's access modifiers like private, readonly, and protected. Understand how these features work in TypeScript classes, constructors, and how they translate in compiled JavaScript.

Introduction to ES6 private fields

An experimental proposal to the ECMAScript standard introduces the concept of a private field by using the hash (#) symbol before a property name.

This means that if we are targeting a runtime that ...