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Using constants is are a best practice when assigning variables but what happens when you do actually want to reassign a value? That's where let comes in.
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The let keyword is used when you
want to re-assign a variable.
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In that respect, it just works like var.
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Let's take a look at a simple example.
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Open up let.html, and you can see
we've got a score that equals 0,
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an age that equals 33, and a Boolean,
isHungry, that equals false.
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Open up the preview, and
navigate to let.html.
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Open up the Console, And
let's try and modify the score.
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The score can change through a game,
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the score increments by one each time
the player completes a challenge.
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Again, let just works like var,
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you can re-assign values to a variable
that is declared with the let keyword.
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You can update the age to be 34, and
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isHungry, To be true.
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Let's look at a more complex example,
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where you should use let
rather than a const.
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Open up person.html, and here we have
a function called personDescription.
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That creates a description string
that gets logged out at the end here.
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If the person object has a role,
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It will add additional information at the
end of the description, and is logged out.
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Let's see this in action.
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Go to the preview, click on person.html,
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open up the developer console, and
we should see Andrew is a Teacher.
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If we change the var keyword in
the person description function to const,
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And run it again, we get an error,
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because we're trying to re-assign
the description in the if block.
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We could change it to var,
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or alternatively we could
use the new let keyword.
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Let works like var,
allowing you to re-assign variables, but
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unlike var it has block level scoping.
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We'll explore when we'd see the advantages
of using let over var in the next video.
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Now that we've changed
the constant to let,
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let's see how it works in our browser.
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Looking in the console, we see Andrew is
a Teacher printed out like we expect.
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In the next video,
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we'll look at how let solves some problems
where the var keyword falls short.
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