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<p>Look in the console.</p>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34838659/the-this-keyword-behaves-differently-in-nodejs-and-browser" target="_blank"><b>this</b> behaves diffrently in the browser vs Node.js</a></p>
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console.log(this === window);
console.log('The base/global execution constant creates two things, a global object (objects are simply name value pairs, remember?) and *this*. this is also equal to the global object. Inside the broswer window is the global object.')
if (this === window) {
console.log('this is same a window object');
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console.log('There would be a different window/global object in another browser window. Each tab is a different execution context and so it would have it\'s own global/window object.');
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console.log(this === window);
console.log('The base/global execution constant creates two things, a global object (objects are simply name value pairs, remember?) and *this*. this is also equal to the global object. Inside the broswer window is the global object.')
if (this === window) {
console.log('this is same a window object');
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console.log('There would be a different window/global object in another browser window. Each tab is a different execution context and so it would have it\'s own global/window object.');
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console.log(this);
console.log(this === window);
console.log('The base/global execution constant creates two things, a global object (objects are simply name value pairs, remember?) and *this*. this is also equal to the global object. Inside the broswer window is the global object.')
if (this === window) {
console.log('this is same a window object');
}
console.log('There would be a different window/global object in another browser window. Each tab is a different execution context and so it would have it\'s own global/window object.');