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Value vs. Reference with ES2015

Explore the difference between value and reference types in JavaScript, especially how const works with objects and arrays. Understand why constants cannot be reassigned but mutable objects can be changed. This lesson also covers why const requires initialization upon declaration, enhancing your grasp of variable behavior in ES2015.

Value vs. Reference with const

There’s a small piece of the discussion of const that was left out in the related previous lesson. We haven’t discussed how it works with objects. To truly understand that, we first needed an understanding of value vs. reference in JS. With that understanding, ...