Chapter 5: JavaScript Object Creation: Patterns and Best Practices
by Jeff Mott
In this chapter, I’m going to take you on a tour of the various styles of JavaScript object creation, and how each builds on the others in incremental steps.
JavaScript has a multitude of styles for creating objects, and newcomers and veterans alike can feel overwhelmed by the choices and unsure which they should use. But despite the variety and how different the syntax for each may look, they’re more similar than you probably realize.
Object Literals
The first stop on our tour is the absolute simplest method of JavaScript object creation — the object literal. JavaScript touts that objects can be created “ex nilo”, out of nothing — no class, no template, no prototype ...
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