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Piyush Panchal
Piyush Panchal

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const vs. let

#javascript #webdev

In JavaScript, There are three ways of declaring a variable, why though? How are they different? const cannot be redeclared. therefore it will have one constant value, and can't be changed. For Example-

const number = 1 number = 2 //Gives an error (const cannot be redefined.)
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Whereas let can be changed anytime. For example-

let num = 2 num = 5 //Value changes to 5 with no errors.
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Thanks for reading.
Hope I helped :D

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Ranieri Althoff • • Edited

It will not error since you are not redefining number in the first case. I think you meant number = 2 instead (in both cases).

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Piyush Panchal •

oh yeah thanks for telling