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Sparkling Stork answered on October 26, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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Symbol is a primitive data type of JS along with string,number,bool,null and undef
which are used to identify object properties since none is equal to the other.

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for()	Searches for existing symbols
keyFor()	Returns a shared symbol key from the global symbol registry.
toSource()	Returns a string containing the source of the Symbol object
toString()	Returns a string containing the description of the Symbol
valueOf()	Returns the primitive value of the Symbol object.

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// get symbol by name
let sym = Symbol.for('hello');
let sym1 = Symbol.for('id');

// get name by symbol
console.log( Symbol.keyFor(sym) ); // hello
console.log( Symbol.keyFor(sym1) ); // id

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// get symbol by name
let sym = Symbol.for('hello');
let sym1 = Symbol.for('id');

// get name by symbol
console.log( Symbol.keyFor(sym) ); // hello
console.log( Symbol.keyFor(sym1) ); // id

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Symbol Properties javascript

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const x = Symbol('hey');

// description property
console.log(x.description); // hey

const stringArray = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
const numberArray = [1, 2, 3];

// isConcatSpreadable property
numberArray[Symbol.isConcatSpreadable] = false;

let result = stringArray.concat(numberArray);
console.log(result); // ["a", "b", "c", [1, 2, 3]]

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JavaScript Symbol

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// two symbols with the same description

const value1 = Symbol('hello');
const value2 = Symbol('hello');

console.log(value1 === value2); // false

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// two symbols with the same description

const value1 = Symbol('hello');
const value2 = Symbol('hello');

console.log(value1 === value2); // false

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JavaScript Symbol

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// two symbols with the same description

const value1 = Symbol('hello');
const value2 = Symbol('hello');

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javascript Symbol Properties

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asyncIterator	Returns the default AsyncIterator for an object
hasInstance	Determines if a constructor object recognizes an object as its instance
isConcatSpreadable	Indicates if an object should be flattened to its array elements
iterator	Returns the default iterator for an object
match	Matches against a string
matchAll	Returns an iterator that yields matches of the regular expression against a string
replace	Replaces matched substrings of a string
search	Returns the index within a string that matches the regular expression
split	Splits a string at the indices that match a regular expression
species	Creates derived objects
toPrimitive	Converts an object to a primitive value
toStringTag	Gives the default description of an object
description	Returns a string containing the description of the symbol

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var idk={test:true,[Symbol.toStringTag]:'e'}
consoel.log(idk)//e {test:true,[Symbol.toStringTag]:'e'}
idk.toString()//[object e]

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