Why does Angular need JavaScript's most unused primitive

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Most JavaScript developers are probably familiar with the most common JavaScript primitives like string, number, boolean, null, and undefined... but perhaps not with bigint and symbol. This video explores what exactly the symbol primitive is, and how Angular is using it for their signals implementation

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0:00 JavaScript primitives
0:52 What is the symbol primitive
1:57 Aren't objects already unique?
2:20 Primary use of symbols
3:41 How Angular uses symbols
6:37 Creating fake signals
7:08 Avoiding name collisions

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