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JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

You're reading from  JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562523
Pages 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Laurence Lars Svekis Laurence Lars Svekis
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Codestars By Rob Percival Codestars By Rob Percival
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with JavaScript 2. JavaScript Essentials 3. JavaScript Multiple Values 4. Logic Statements 5. Loops 6. Functions 7. Classes 8. Built-In JavaScript Methods 9. The Document Object Model 10. Dynamic Element Manipulation Using the DOM 11. Interactive Content and Event Listeners 12. Intermediate JavaScript 13. Concurrency 14. HTML5, Canvas, and JavaScript 15. Next Steps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix – Practice Exercise, Project, and Self-Check Quiz Answers

Functions and the arguments object

JavaScript deals with arguments in functions by adding them to a custom object called arguments. This object works a lot like an array, and we can use it instead of using the name of the parameter. Consider the following code:

function test(a, b, c) {
  console.log("first:", a, arguments[0]);
  console.log("second:", b, arguments[1]);
  console.log("third:", c, arguments[2]);
}
test("fun", "js", "secrets");

This outputs:

first: fun fun
second: js js
third: secrets secrets

When you update one of the parameters, the argument gets changed accordingly. The same goes for the other way around;

function test(a, b, c) {
  a = "nice";
  arguments[1] = "JavaScript";
  console.log("first:", a, arguments[0]);
  console.log("second:", b, arguments[1]);
  console.log("third:", c, arguments[2]);
}
test("fun", "js"...
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