Expert Angular

Private and public modifiers

In TypeScript, all members in a class are public by default. We have to add the private keyword explicitly to control the visibility of the members, and this useful feature is not available in JavaScript:

class SimpleCalculator { 
    private x: number; 
    private y: number; 
    z: number; 
    constructor(x: number, y: number) { 
       this.x = x; 
       this.y = y; 
    } 
    addition() { 
        this.z = this.x + this.y; 
   } 
   subtraction() { 
        this.z = this.x - this.y; 
   } 
} 
  
class ComplexCalculator { 
    z: number; 
    constructor(private x: number, private y: number) { } 
    multiplication() { 
       this.z = this.x * this.y;  
   } 
    division() { 
        this.z = this.x / this.y; 
   } 
} 

Note that in the SimpleCalculator class, we defined x and y as private properties, which will not be visible ...