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Javascript Variable Assignments

Oscar Ortiz on June 19, 2021

Introduction If you wanna get a bit more in depth on the differences between the ways of declaring variables with var, let, and const, ...
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Michiel Hendriks •

when declaring with const is that the values can not be changed once they have been declared, can not be re-assigned

Values can be changed. Just the assignment cannot.

const foo = {
  "bar": false
};
foo.bar = true;
console.log(foo.bar); // prints true
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In other languages which offer const it is actually constant and cannot be changed (e.g. C, C++, also C# but limited).