Javascript – catch access to property of object [duplicate]

Yes, this is possible in ES2015+, using the Proxy. It’s not possible in ES5 and earlier, not even with polyfills.

It took me a while, but I finally found my previous answer to this question. See that answer for all the details on proxies and such.

Here’s the proxy example from that answer:

const obj = new Proxy({}, {
    get: function(target, name, receiver) {
        if (!(name in target)) {
            console.log("Getting non-existant property '" + name + "'");
            return undefined;
        }
        return Reflect.get(target, name, receiver);
    },
    set: function(target, name, value, receiver) {
        if (!(name in target)) {
            console.log("Setting non-existant property '" + name + "', initial value: " + value);
        }
        return Reflect.set(target, name, value, receiver);
    }
});

console.log("[before] obj.foo = " + obj.foo);
obj.foo = "bar";
console.log("[after] obj.foo = " + obj.foo);
obj.foo = "baz";
console.log("[after] obj.foo = " + obj.foo);

Live Copy:

"use strict";

const obj = new Proxy({}, {
    get: function(target, name, receiver) {
        if (!(name in target)) {
            console.log("Getting non-existant property '" + name + "'");
            return undefined;
        }
        return Reflect.get(target, name, receiver);
    },
    set: function(target, name, value, receiver) {
        if (!(name in target)) {
            console.log("Setting non-existant property '" + name + "', initial value: " + value);
        }
        return Reflect.set(target, name, value, receiver);
    }
});

console.log("[before] obj.foo = " + obj.foo);
obj.foo = "bar";
console.log("[after] obj.foo = " + obj.foo);
obj.foo = "baz";
console.log("[after] obj.foo = " + obj.foo);

When run, that outputs:

Getting non-existant property 'foo'
[before] obj.foo = undefined
Setting non-existant property 'foo', initial value: bar
[after] obj.foo = bar
[after] obj.foo = baz