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A Deeper Look at Objects
In this Chapter
Understand at a deeper level how objects work
Learn to create custom objects
Demystify the prototype property
Do some inheriting
In the “What Are Objects?” section of Chapter 12, “Of Pizzas, Types, Primitives, and Objects,” you received a very high-level overview of what objects in JavaScript are and how to think about them. That was good enough to cover the basics and some of the built-in types, but we need to go a little deeper. This chapter will make that earlier chapter seem like the tip of a ginormous iceberg.
In this chapter, we are going look at objects again, but in greater detail, and ...
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