The for...of loop is a very simple kind of loop.

With this loop you don’t have to worry about the index.

Here’s how use it with the example we’ve been using with the other loops:

const list = ['a', 'b', 'c']

for (const item of list) {
  console.log(item)
}

It’s much simpler, right?

One downside is that we don’t have a way to get the index value, which is often useful.

In this case we use a “trick” by combining the array destructuring syntax and calling the entries() method on the array, which we’ll talk more about later on when we’ll get to iterators:

for (const [index, value] of ['a', 'b', 'c'].entries()) {
  console.log(index)
  console.log(value)
}

Notice the use of const when we define item. This loop creates a new scope in every iteration, so we can safely use that instead of let. This is not something we can do for the for loop, where we have to use let.

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