Lately I have realized some useful facts about the pass by reference mechanism in javascript.
Let me share them here.
To cut to the chase, there is no such thing as passing a variable as reference in javascript. Variables are always passed as values in arguments. This means that what you can do in PHP for example when you do function test(&$val){} is not possible in javascript, there is no special keyword or symbol to do that.
However, there are some cases when you can “simulate” this behaviour in javascript. But before showing you how to do that, let’s make a recap.
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