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Discussion on: Singleton in JavaScript

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Tomek Buszewski

Hi, and thanks foe your kind words!

JavaScript doesn't have private and public distinction (yet), so the short answer is - no.

The long one is - you can have private methods in TypeScript (and, private constructor). I've created a simple demo and – while TypeScript linter shouts that this is an error (noting that constructor is indeed private), this gets compiled to JavaScript as a regular class that can have multiple instances. So I guess it's the compiler's job to fail here.

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Sung M. Kim

Thanks Tomek for the follow-up~ 🙏

That sounds like another great reason to use TypeScript 🙂

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Tomek Buszewski

Yes, TypeScript is a great tool and I use it recently for almost everything. The best thing is, it's JavaScript superset, so you don't really have to know everything and can just build your knowledge while working on a project. Create a plain JS code then slowly fill the type coverage as you go :)