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Let's talk about another feature of its 20 20, and this one is called Global This.

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And the global this is a global variable that we now get, and because I have the latest version of

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Chrome, I can see that it works and this points to the window object.

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So global, this does it equal window.

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Yep, global.

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This is pretty much the window object that we get as part of our browser environment.

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Remember, the window object is what gives us things like set interval, set time out or any of the

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features that the browsers allow us to do.

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So why did we need a global this?

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That is pretty much what we already had with the window object.

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Well, the neat thing is that this global this works outside the browser as well.

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Let me show you.

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Now, if we had Noad.

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On our computer and we run.

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The command window to access the window object will get an air window is not defined because window

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is part of the browser, but inside of node no doesn't really work as a browser.

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It doesn't really know what window is.

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Instead, Node uses global write.

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The node version of window is the global object.

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Now, with E20, they wanted to unify different platforms outside of the browser so that there's a global

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variable that each one of them can access.

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So this.

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The global this now exists in note.

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Now, if you look over here, it's the exact same thing as the global object.

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That note has so it's still not really the window object, however, the global this object now exists

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as both part of the window and note so that you can have unified variables across different platforms,

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different systems.

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So although global, this has different.

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Properties.

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Inside of a browser than it does inside of Noad, we're able to have a unified code base if, let's

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say we want to run our app both in code as well as on the browser.

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Now, keep in mind that if I exit out of here.

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The reason I'm able to use the global this inside of note is that I have the latest version of note

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or at least a version that's higher than this.

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So you might not have global this work in Noad unless you have a later version, more modern version

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that has implemented this new feature.

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All right.

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Let's take a break.

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I'll see you in the next one.