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Gbolahan Olagunju
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Jan 26, 2020 â‹… 2 min read

Demystifying function and variable hoisting in JavaScript

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3 Replies to "Demystifying function and variable hoisting in JavaScript"

  1. Hi, You said Function hoisting supersedes variable hoisting.
    Why is it then the variable declation var name = ‘gbolahan’;
    is still higher than the function myName() ?

    Isn’t supposedly in this order?

    myName(){}
    var name = undefined;
    name = ‘gbolahan’

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