Lesson 5. Declaring constants with const
After reading lesson 5, you will
- Understand what constants are and how they work.
- Know when to use constants.
The keyword const stands for constant, as in never changing. Many programs have values that never change, whether by intention or by happenstance. Values declared with const, referred to as constants, have the same characteristics as those declared with let, which you learned about in the previous chapter, with the additional feature of reassignment being forbidden.
Consider the following switch statement, which uses flags to determine what type of action is being performed. The uppercasing of ADD_ITEM and DEL_ITEM indicates that these are values that are never expected ...
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