Lesson 12 - Object Properties in JavaScript - Accessor Descriptors
In the previous lesson, Object Properties in JavaScript - Data Descriptors, we introduced object property descriptors. Today, we're going to continue with access descriptors that are even more interesting.
Let's again show the table of keys of both descriptors types:
Data | Accessor |
---|---|
value | get |
writable | set |
configurable | configurable |
enumerable | enumerable |
Accessor Descriptors
We've already discussed 2 of the keys in the last lesson, these are
configurable
and enumerable
. They both work on the
same principle here, so we won't deal with them again. We'll show the other two,
get
and set
.
Getters and setters are
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