Chapter 6. Inheritance
In this chapter, let's focus on the inheritance part. This is one of the most interesting features, as it allows you to reuse existing code, thus promoting laziness, which is likely to be what brought human species to computer programming in the first place.
JavaScript is a dynamic language and there is usually more than one way to achieve any given task. Inheritance is not an exception. In this chapter, you'll see some common patterns for implementing inheritance. Having a good understanding of these patterns will help you pick the right one, or the right mix, depending on your task, project or your style.
Prototype chaining
Let's start with the default way of implementing inheritance—inheritance chaining through the prototype. ...
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