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Practice Object Basics in JavaScript

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Adding a Property Solution

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Solution video for adding a property on the fly code challenge.

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    Outside of the object literal you can add a new property to it by 0:01
    accessing the new property with dot or bracket notation and giving it a value. 0:04
    This process is a lot like creating a new variable. 0:09
    myString.characters indicates that now there is going to be a new property on 0:13
    myString called characters. 0:17
    Then we assign it a value, just like you do when you declare a variable. 0:19
    Now, strings, like arrays, come with a property called length. 0:24
    On a string, the length property returns the number of characters. 0:28

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