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JavaScript Object-Oriented JavaScript Object Basics Filling Out the Play Method

Jennifer Riess
Jennifer Riess
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Posted by Jennifer Riess
Jennifer Riess
8,726 Points

I'm confused as to where the 'this' statement is inserted. They didn't lead up to this in the video, confused.

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object.js 
const player1 = {
    name: 'Ashley',
    color: 'purple',
    isTurn: true,
    play: function(){
        if (player1.isTurn) {
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Andrew Hickman
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Andrew Hickman
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Andrew Hickman
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Andrew Hickman
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 10,013 Points

In this case, this would refer to the particular instance of player1. So instead of:

if (player1.isTurn){
}

you would chain isTurn to this:

if (this.isTurn){
}