Chapter 7. Object orientation with prototypes
This chapter covers
- Exploring prototypes
- Using functions as constructors
- Extending objects with prototypes
- Avoiding common gotchas
- Building classes with inheritance
You’ve learned that functions are first-class objects in JavaScript, that closures make them incredibly versatile and useful, and that you can combine generator functions with promises to tackle the problem of asynchronous code. Now we’re ready to tackle another important aspect of JavaScript: object prototypes.
A prototype is an object to which the search for a particular property can be delegated to. Prototypes are a convenient means of defining properties and functionality that will be automatically accessible to other objects. Prototypes ...
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