Along with the inline method of declaring getters and setters, it can also be done more explicitly viaObject.defineProperty(MDN Documentation). This method takes three arguments. The first is the object to add the property to, the second is the name of the property, and the third is an ob...
Not many people know it, but you can use "real" getters and setters in JavaScript if you want to. De-facto offerings Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0+, Google Chrome 1.0+ and Opera 9.5+ support a de-facto way of getters and setters: var lost = { loc : "Island",
Currently JS interop missing a good way to define getters and setters that would be available from JS side. We have noObject.definePropertyfunction built-in. Even if we had such, currently it's very hacky and requires some workarounds (see this comment#54381 (comment)), which wont always ...
ES6 getters and setters don’t have there own discussion yet, and they came up in the discussion of decorators, specifically the need the ensure that any syntax that CoffeeScript adopts for defining getters and setters must allow decorators to be applied to the function literals.This is a ge...
For the most part, in JavaScript, what you see is what you get. A value’s a value; there are no tricks. Sometimes however, you want a value that’s ...