Strange behavior of Object.defineProperty() in JavaScript

Question

I was playing with below javascript code. Understanding of Object.defineProperty() and I am facing a strange issue with it. When I try to execute below code in the browser or in the VS code the output is not as expected whereas if I try to debug the code the output is correct

When I debug the code and evaluate the profile I can see the name & age property in the object But at the time of output, it only shows the name property

//Code Snippet   let profile = {    name: 'Barry Allen',  }    // I added a new property in the profile object.  Object.defineProperty(profile, 'age', {    value: 23,    writable: true  })    console.log(profile)  console.log(profile.age)

Now expected output here should be

{name: "Barry Allen", age: 23} 23 

but I get the output as. Note that I am able to access the age property defined afterwards. I am not sure why the console.log() is behaving this way.

{name: "Barry Allen"} 23  

Answer 1

You should set enumerable to true. In Object.defineProperty its false by default. According to MDN.

enumerable

true if and only if this property shows up during enumeration of the properties on the corresponding object.

Defaults to false.

Non-enumerable means that property will not be shown in Object.keys() or for..in loop neither in console

let profile = {      name: 'Barry Allen',  }    // I added a new property in the profile object.    Object.defineProperty(profile , 'age', {      value: 23,      writable: true,      enumerable: true  })  console.log(profile)  console.log(profile.age)

All the properties and methods on prototype object of built-in classes are non-enumerable. Thats is the reason you can call them from instance but they don't appear while iterating.

To get all properties(including non-enumerable)Object​.get​OwnProperty​Names() .

let profile = {      name: 'Barry Allen',  }    // I added a new property in the profile object.    Object.defineProperty(profile , 'age', {      value: 23,      writable: true,      enumerable: false  })  for(let key in profile) console.log(key) //only name will be displayed.    console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(profile)) //You will se age too