Use of JavaScript getters and setters in website development
JavaScript is an object-based paradigm, and all the object-oriented
programming languages employ the getters and setters in website
development. An object in a Programming language is a collection of
properties. Here, properties are the association of a name/ key and a value. In
other words, properties are the static key-value pairs. A property value may be
a function. As a function, the property is known as a method. A method is a
specific function of an object. An object can have many methods and properties.
No doubt, your browser will have a predefined object. However, you can define
your objects as well.
What are getters and setters?
Getters and setters are also known as the
accessors and mutators. There are two types of properties in JavaScript such as
Data properties and accessor properties. These accessor properties are referred
to as the getter and setter properties. The setter method sets/ updates an
instance variable's value, whereas the getter returns the value. Using
JavaScript getters and setters in website development
services is common now.
How to create Getters and Setters?
There are three following ways to create Getters
and setters.
- Using the get and set keywords
- Using the Object.defineProperty() method
- Using the default getter and setter methods, also known as the
default method syntax
Here, we are discussing the get and set keyword
method only.
The get and set keywords.
As the title indicates, the getter and setter
variables start with a ‘get’ and ‘set,’ and
the variable follows with a capital letter. In simple words, get means
to define a getter property to get a property's value rather than the method.
Its name has to be different than the data property in which that value to be
accessed is stored. While using getters and setters in website
development, you must note that the old Internet Explorers (IE8) do
not support the get keywords.
However, the setter defines a setter method to
set the value of a property. For setters, the same names can be used as the
getters along with some parameters. These parameters allow passing the new
values towards the properties.
Using the get and set keywords,
you will have an advantage in website development.
As the names for getters and setters are different, you won’t mix them with
data properties' values. Moreover, if you use the get and set keywords,
you will be able to keep your data properties private.
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