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[jLinux]

I know, the topic sounds confusing, lol. 
 
I'm getting into coding JS a lot more now, I usually do my projects in PHP, and some JS for the client side stuff, but recently, I've been doing a lot of JS projects, and I've been getting into ES6 as well (which is awesome!), and ill be switching one of my projects from PHP to Node/React.
 
One thing I'm currently working on, is a super easy way to implement a way to use private properties inside classes (which by the way, kinda blows me away thats not possible, at lest not traditionally, like in other languages). It seems like the best way to accomplish this, would be to use a WeakMap, and while I really hate having to do that (it just seems... not right), ill do it. But I would like to be able to create a way to use it in a more traditional sense.
 
I was hoping that there was something like the __noSuchMethod__, only for properties, not methods. Then I could do something fancy like check if it starts with an underscore, if so, add it to the WeakMap, then when trying to retrieve it, if it starts with an underscore, then retrieve it from the WeakMap. I know theres the Getters and Setters, but you have to know the names of the properties you're trying to get, if there was a way to execute a method for a property that doesn't exist, and hand down the name/value, that would be perfect.
 
So basically, what I'm looking for, is something thats the equivalent to PHP's overloading "magic" methods, __get and __set, which gets and sets properties that don't yet exist, (Not to be confused with the __call, which is for methods, not properties)
 
I know it's possible to do something like let _privVar = getPrivateVar('privVar');, but like I said, I'm looking for something thats a bit more "traditional".
 
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[dargueta]

You could create an object with truly private variables inaccessible outside of the object like so:

function MyObject() {
    // Allow circumventing rebinding `this` so we always
    // get the same properties.
    var self = this;

    var myPrivateProperty = 'foo';
    self.myPublicProperty = 'bar';

    self.myPublicMethod = function (blah) {
        return '' + blah + self.myPublicProperty;
    };
}

[jLinux]

 

You could create an object with truly private variables inaccessible outside of the object like so:

function MyObject() {
    // Allow circumventing rebinding `this` so we always
    // get the same properties.
    var self = this;

    var myPrivateProperty = 'foo';
    self.myPublicProperty = 'bar';

    self.myPublicMethod = function (blah) {
        return '' + blah + self.myPublicProperty;
    };
}

 

Regarding the var self = this, ES6 has a lexical this for that. 

 

And for the rest of this, I'm not just talking about single functions/methods, I'm talking about an entire class... Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/jLinux/ke0fg722/

[dargueta]

Well that is a class. You'd create it with instance = new MyObject().