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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