developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Hoisting Hoisting - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms | MDN Hoisting is a term you will not find used in any normative specification prose prior to ECMAScript® 2015 Language Specification. Hoisting was thought up as a general way of thinking about how execution contexts (specifically the creation and execution pha developer.mozilla...