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Object-Oriented JavaScript

Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

By : Ved Antani, Stoyan STEFANOV
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Object-Oriented JavaScript

Object-Oriented JavaScript

4.5 (6)
By: Ved Antani, Stoyan STEFANOV

Overview of this book

JavaScript is an object-oriented programming language that is used for website development. Web pages developed today currently follow a paradigm that has three clearly distinguishable parts: content (HTML), presentation (CSS), and behavior (JavaScript). JavaScript is one important pillar in this paradigm, and is responsible for the running of the web pages. This book will take your JavaScript skills to a new level of sophistication and get you prepared for your journey through professional web development. Updated for ES6, this book covers everything you will need to unleash the power of object-oriented programming in JavaScript while building professional web applications. The book begins with the basics of object-oriented programming in JavaScript and then gradually progresses to cover functions, objects, and prototypes, and how these concepts can be used to make your programs cleaner, more maintainable, faster, and compatible with other programs/libraries. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to incorporate object-oriented programming in your web development workflow to build professional JavaScript applications.
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B. Built-in Functions
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D. Regular Expressions

Inheriting the prototype only


As explained earlier, for reasons of efficiency, you should add the reusable properties and methods to the prototype. If you do so, then it's a good idea to inherit only the prototype, because all the reusable code is there. This means that inheriting the Shape.prototype object is better than inheriting the object created with new Shape(). After all, new Shape() only gives you own shape properties that are not meant to be reused (otherwise, they would be in the prototype). You gain a little more efficiency by:

  • Not creating a new object for the sake of inheritance alone

  • Having fewer lookups during runtime (when it comes to searching for toString())

For example, here's the updated code; the changes are highlighted:

    function Shape() {} 
    // augment prototype 
    Shape.prototype.name = 'Shape'; 
    Shape.prototype.toString = function () { 
      return this.name; 
    }; 
 
    function TwoDShape() {} 
    // take care...
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