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As JavaScript applications grow in scope and complexity, organizing all that code can become an increasing challenge. Without some logical structure in place, we might end up with hundreds of variables and functions cluttering the global namespace. This can quickly lead to naming collisions and tricky bugs.
Namespaces provide a straightforward solution for tidying our JavaScript environment by grouping related code under a simple hierarchical naming structure. Here we’ll explore what namespaces are, why they matter for JavaScript, and how to leverage them properly.
What is a Namespace?
A namespace is way to group related functions, variables, and other code elements together to prevent naming collisions. We can think of namespaces like folders on our computer’s file system. All files within a folder share a common location, separated from files in other folders.
Namespaces work the same way in JavaScript, providing logical partitions to organize blocks of code.
