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James Padolsey
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James Padolsey

James Padolsey is a passionate JavaScript and UI engineer with over 12 years' experience. James began his journey into JavaScript as a teenager, teaching himself how to build websites for school and small freelance projects. In the early years, he was a prolific blogger, sharing his unique solutions to common problems in the domains of jQuery, JavaScript, and the DOM. He later contributed to the jQuery library itself and authored a chapter within the jQuery Cookbook published by O'Reilly Media. Over subsequent years, James has been exposed to many unique software projects in his employment at Stripe, Twitter, and Facebook, informing his philosophy on what clean coding truly means in the ever-changing ecosystem of JavaScript.
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Property access operators

Accessing properties in JavaScript is achieved by using one of two operators:

  • Direct property access: obj.property
  • Computed property access: obj[property]

Direct property access

The syntax for directly accessing a property is a single period character, with a left-side operand that is the object you wish to access, and with a right-side operand that is the property name you wish to access:

const street = {
name: 'Marshal St.'
};

street.name; // => "Marshal St."

The right-side operand must be a valid JavaScript identifier, and as such, cannot start with a number, cannot contain whitespace, and in general, cannot contain any punctuation characters that exist elsewhere within...

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James Padolsey

James Padolsey is a passionate JavaScript and UI engineer with over 12 years' experience. James began his journey into JavaScript as a teenager, teaching himself how to build websites for school and small freelance projects. In the early years, he was a prolific blogger, sharing his unique solutions to common problems in the domains of jQuery, JavaScript, and the DOM. He later contributed to the jQuery library itself and authored a chapter within the jQuery Cookbook published by O'Reilly Media. Over subsequent years, James has been exposed to many unique software projects in his employment at Stripe, Twitter, and Facebook, informing his philosophy on what clean coding truly means in the ever-changing ecosystem of JavaScript.
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