Object-oriented programming in JavaScript

All the objects in JavaScript are inherited from an object. JavaScript provides different patterns to adhere to the object-oriented programming (OOP) principles when building applications. There are different patterns, such as constructor patterns, prototype patterns, and object literal representation, and, with ECMAScript 6, a completely new way of representing objects through classes and inheriting a base class using the extends keyword.

In this section, we will see how we can implement the OOP principles with different methodologies.

Creating objects

A class represents the structure of an object and every class has certain methods and properties used by the object, whereas an object is an instance of a ...

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