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1) Make use of the fact that functions are objects and can have properties<\/strong> 2) Using closure and function expressions<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 Ways : 1) Make use of the fact that functions are objects and can have properties (Even using “this” instead of uniqueID inside the function will do) function uniqueID() { \/\/ Check to see if the counter has been initialized if ( typeof uniqueID.counter == ‘undefined’ ) { \/\/ It has not… perform the … Continue reading How to achieve static variable in javascript<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-javascript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(Even using “this” instead of uniqueID inside the function will do)<\/p>\n\r\nfunction uniqueID() {\r\n \/\/ Check to see if the counter has been initialized\r\n if ( typeof uniqueID.counter == 'undefined' ) {\r\n \/\/ It has not... perform the initialization\r\n uniqueID.counter = 0;\r\n }\r\n uniqueID.counter++;\r\n return (uniqueID.counter);\r\n}\r\n\r\nconsole.log(uniqueID());\r\nconsole.log(uniqueID());\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\nvar uniqueID = (function() {\r\n var id = 0; \/\/ This is the private persistent value\r\n \/\/ The outer function returns a nested function that has access\r\n \/\/ to the persistent value. It is this nested function we're storing\r\n \/\/ in the variable uniqueID above.\r\n return function() { return id++; }; \/\/ Return and increment\r\n})(); \/\/ Invoke the outer function after defining it.\r\n\r\nconsole.log(uniqueID());\r\nconsole.log(uniqueID());\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"