JavaScript Scope and Closures

Scopes and closures are important in JavaScript. But, they were confusing for me when I first started. Here's an explanation of scopes and closures to help you understand what they are.

Let's start with scopes.

Scope

A scope in JavaScript defines what variables you have access to. There are two kinds of scope global scope and local scope.

Global scope

If a variable is declared outside all functions or curly braces ({}), it is said to be …

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