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Aleksei Aleinikov
Aleksei Aleinikov

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๐Ÿงฎ One counter. Eight mindsets.

In 2025, how you build a counter() says a lot about how you think in code.

๐Ÿ”ฅ This article explores 8 different JS patterns:

  1. ๐Ÿง  Closure โ€” the gold standard
  2. ๐Ÿงต Generator โ€” pause & resume
  3. ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Symbol โ€” hide in plain sight
  4. ๐Ÿงผ WeakMap โ€” true encapsulation
  5. ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Proxy โ€” intercept access
  6. ๐Ÿงฉ Bind โ€” fix your context
  7. ๐Ÿ’พ Global โ€” works, but please donโ€™t
  8. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ WebAssembly โ€” yes, really

๐Ÿงต With clean examples and pros/cons for each.
https://javascript.plainenglish.io/top-8-modern-counter-patterns-in-javascript-in-2025-b8f6224e2dbe

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