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Let’s go through an example of different ways to call a function in JavaScript. Let’s say we have a function that prints Hello World to the console. We can call this as: function HelloWorld() { console.log(“Hello World”); } HelloWorld(); This function can also be assigned an anonymous variable and called as below: var i = function() { console.log(“Hello World”); } i(); Or also run immediately as: var i = function() … Continue reading JavaScript – Calling Functions

“use strict” is a feature of JavaScript that tells the compiler to use a strict context. For example, consider the code below. This code produces no errors, and displays “1” in the console: [sourcecode language=”JavaScript”] "use strict"; try { var i = 1; console.log(i); } catch(e) { console.error(e); } [/sourcecode] However, let’s say we didn’t include “var” before our variable. In normal JavaScript without using “use strict”, this would be … Continue reading JavaScript – Use Strict

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In JavaScript, there are different ways to define properties to objects. For example, if we have a Customer class, we can define properties using the this keyword, and also Object.defineproperty: function Customer (firstname, lastname, email, phonenumber) { this.firstname = firstname, this.lastname = lastname, this.email = email, Object.defineProperty(this, “phonenumber”, { writable: true, enumerable: true, configurable: false, value: phonenumber }); } //Print out Customer var Customer00001 = new Customer(“Bob”, “Smith”, “bob@test.com”, “111-222-7777”) … Continue reading JavaScript – Object defineProperty