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JavaScript is a prototype-based language, and every object in JavaScript has a hidden internal property called [[Prototype]] that can be used to extend object properties and methods. You can read more about prototypes in our Understanding Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript tutorial.
Until recently, industrious developers used constructor functions to mimic an object-oriented design pattern in JavaScript. The language specification ECMAScript 2015, often referred to as ES6, introduced classes to the JavaScript language. Classes in JavaScript do not actually offer additional functionality, and are often described as providing “syntactical sugar” over prototypes and inheritance in that they offer a cleaner and more elegant syntax. Because other programming languages use classes, the class syntax in JavaScript makes it more straightforward for developers to move between languages.
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Great Article!
It’s awesome, just replace this article with the previous one (Understanding prototypes…), it would make it easier for new comers to the language IMHO
Awesome article! Explain the concept in very easy way.
Great article Tania I found it really useful. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
wonderful! great informative article!
Thank you, this was very enlightening. I’d been creating prototype chains and old-school class constructors with the instanceof hack for a long time. High time I got with the programme and this is just what the doctor ordered.
Well done. Crystal clear.
Good explanation. One point that I would like to bring to notice is that with hero1 object we can not call greet function but with hero2 object we can call it.
Pretty straight to the point. .Thank you
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