What is a reflect ?
Reflect is something coming back to you through reflection.
What is a reflect in programming language ?
Reflect is the ability to reflect the structure of the program.
This is simply as getting information back from the same old methods/fields/interfaces etc.
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What is a reflect in javascript ?
Reflect is an built-in javascript object provides methods for interceptable JavaScript operations.
Reflect is not a constructor, so object cannot be constructed.
All the properties and methods of reflect are static objects.
These methods are same like proxy handlers.
There are few methods in Javascript reflect listed below,
| Sno | Method / Function | Description |
| 1 | Reflect.apply() | Reflect.apply() method calls a target function with arguments as specified by the args parameter. |
| 2 | Reflect.construct() | Reflect.construct() is new operator as a function, equivalent to calling new target(…args). |
| 3 | Reflect.defineProperty() | Reflect.defineProperty() is similar to Object.defineProperty(). |
| 4 | Reflect.deleteProperty() | Reflect.deleteProperty() is the delete operator as a function. |
| 5 | Reflect.get() | Reflect.get() function that returns the value of properties. |
| 6 | Reflect.getOwnPropertyDescriptor() | Reflect.getOwnPropertyDescriptor() is similar to Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(). |
| 7 | Reflect.getPrototypeOf() | Reflect.getPrototypeOf() method is same as Object.getPrototypeOf(). |
| 8 | Reflect.has() | Reflect.has() method returns a boolean indicating whether an own or inherited property exists. |
| 9 | Reflect.isExtensible() | Reflect.isExtensible() is same as Object.isExtensible(). |
| 10 | Reflect.ownKeys() | Reflect.ownKeys() returns an array of the target object’s own (not inherited) property keys. |
| 11 | Reflect.preventExtensions() | Reflect.preventExtensions() is similar to Object.preventExtensions(). Returns a Boolean. |
| 12 | Reflect.set() | Reflect.set() function that assigns values to properties. |
| 13 | Reflect.setPrototypeOf() | Reflect.setPrototypeOf() function that sets the prototype of an object. |