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I'm very much new to JavaScript. This question may be something very primitive. The posts that are suggested when I was typing this question didn't help me to resolve the issue.

I was following a tutorial and it uses Google Chrome console for exercises. It showed that the global and window objects tables could be printed on the console.

I tried and window was printed but not the global object. Why is this? Do I need to upgrade to a certain version of chrome/install other plugin to support global variables?

It says "Global is not defined"

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    "I was following a tutorial" — a link would be useful so that we could tell if this was an error in the tutorial or if you misunderstood something about it. Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 22:45
  • Thanks! It's a vedio tutorial udemy.com/programming-in-javascript. There is a section on "The global object" Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 22:51
  • Oh I went through it again. It asks me to run the browser in "incognito mode". I don't know what was that but it resolved the issue. Thanks for pointing me back to the tutorial again :) Commented Jan 15, 2017 at 23:01

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I think I found the answer to the question.

The Chrome browser has to be in the "Incognito mode" to see the global object.

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What do you mean by global variables? If you define a variable "var x = 0" Outside of any functions it's global and can be called anywhere.

Including in the console.

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Sorry my mistake. it's not variable, it's global object.
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Have you perhaps run across a NodeJS tutorial where global is used to create a global variable outside of a module?

https://nodejs.org/api/globals.html#globals_global

This is not valid in browser JavaScript, even though in NodeJS it is still JavaScript, the global stuff is a little different.

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