Garbage Collection in Javascript

What Wiki Says

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)

StackOverflow (SO) says

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/864516/what-is-javascript-garbage-collection

A reliable source of information on garbage collection in Javascript
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Memory_Management#Garbage_collection

Understanding how a memory leak can happen in javascript

https://auth0.com/blog/four-types-of-leaks-in-your-javascript-code-and-how-to-get-rid-of-them/

Insight with example on how to debug a memory leak

http://www.dwmkerr.com/fixing-memory-leaks-in-angularjs-applications

Note: Garbage Collection is different from Automatic Reference Counting. From the name, it may look like a variant of reference counting used as a technique in Garbage Collection