Chapter 5. Member Inheritance
In this chapter, I'll cover a feature of JavaScript called inheritance, which is a very useful and powerful tool to acquire. It allows us to write much more ordered and efficient code, because it is a great way to organize your code into useful little lumps. I will cover the following four ways to approach inheritance, each of which has its own place in your programs:
Classical
Prototypal
Deep copy
Mixin
As you may have guessed from the chapter title, this chapter covers only member inheritance; Chapter 6 covers how to use inheritance with object functions.
To get to grips with inheritance, you first have to get to know objects a little bit better, so I will start by covering object constructors to see how objects are defined ...
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