What does ‘::’ (double colon) do in JavaScript?

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It was certainly not the case at the time of your question, but right now :: is a valid ES7 operator. It’s actually a shortcut for bind. 

::foo.bar

is equivalent to 

foo.bar.bind(foo)

See an explanation here for examples:

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