JavaScript is a prototypical language where inheritance is achieved via prototypes. This can be a daunting concept, but it is, in fact, beautifully simple. JavaScript's prototypal behavior can be described like this: every time a property is accessed on an object, if it is not available on the object itself, JavaScript will attempt to access it on an internally available property called [[Prototype]]. It will then repeat this process until it either finds the property or gets to the top of the prototype chain and returns undefined.
Understanding what this [[Prototype]] property is capable of will give you great power over the language and will immediately make JavaScript less daunting. It can be difficult to grasp but is worth ...
