What is Hoisting?

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Hoisting is simply access the functions before they are declared.

Let's take up an example:

disp()
console.log(x);

var x=20;
function disp(){
    console.log("30DaysofJS")
}

Calling a function and a variable before declaring them. The output here is, surprisingly,

In JS, the variables are all initialized as undefined in the first stage of memory allocation, hence even before the execution of code, it gives undefined rather than an error.

For a function, it puts a copy of the whole function in the first stage (in global memory space).

But an arrow function is treated as a variable and given an undefined placeholder.

What about let & const?

console.log(n); 

let n = 26;

The output is as follow, the let and const declarations are given memory but are not given a placeholder hence the error.

JavaScript only hoists declarations, not initializations! This means that initialization doesn't happen until the associated line of code is executed
🌟 Hoisting by MDN
🌟 Hoisting in JS| Akshay Saini