Hoisting

What the hell is that? literal translation is “an act of raising or lifting something”. In javascript,

it refers to variable declaration moving up to top of their scope.

The key words here are: declaration and scope Without getting too technical, declaration is when you create a variable but don’t assign any value to it.

const, let, var are keywords used to declare a variable in javascript. They behave differently when it comes to hoisting.

Since functions are first-class citizens, they may or may not be hoisted.

If each red circle in the picture below is a balloon in a pool, we can see how they behave when it comes to hoisting.

There is more to this so more to come. ✌🏼