Are there pointers in javascript?

You bet there are pointers in JavaScript; objects are pointers.

//this will make object1 point to the memory location that object2 is pointing at
object1 = object2;

//this will make object2 point to the memory location that object1 is pointing at 
function myfunc(object2){}
myfunc(object1);

If a memory location is no longer pointed at, the data there will be lost.

Unlike in C, you can't see the actual address of the pointer nor the actual value of the pointer, you can only dereference it (get the value at the address it points to.)

No, JS doesn't have pointers.

Objects are passed around by passing a copy of a reference. The programmer cannot access any C-like "value" representing the address of an object.

Within a function, one may change the contents of a passed object via that reference, but you cannot modify the reference that the caller had because your reference is only a copy:

var foo = {'bar': 1};

function tryToMungeReference(obj) {
    obj = {'bar': 2};  // won't change caller's object
}

function mungeContents(obj) {
    obj.bar = 2;       // changes _contents_ of caller's object
}

tryToMungeReference(foo);
foo.bar === 1;   // true - foo still references original object

mungeContents(foo);
foo.bar === 2;  // true - object referenced by foo has been modified

I just did a bizarre thing that works out, too.

Instead of passing a pointer, pass a function that fills its argument into the target variable.

var myTarget;

class dial{
  constructor(target){
    this.target = target;
    this.target(99);
  }
}
var myDial = new dial((v)=>{myTarget = v;});

This may look a little wicked, but works just fine. In this example I created a generic dial, which can be assigned any target in form of this little function "(v)=>{target = v}". No idea how well it would do in terms of performance, but it acts beautifully.