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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By : MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty
Book Image

Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

By: MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty

Overview of this book

Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions. You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next. By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
PacktPub.com
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Classes

JavaScript has classes that provide a much simpler and clearer syntax for creating constructors and dealing with inheritance. Until now, JavaScript never had the concept of classes, although it's an object-oriented programming language. Programmers from other programming language backgrounds often found it difficult to understand JavaScript's object-oriented model and inheritance due to the lack of classes.

In this chapter, we will learn about object-oriented JavaScript using classes:

  • JavaScript data types
  • Creating objects the classical way
  • The constructors of the primitive types
  • What are classes?
  • Creating objects using classes
  • Inheritance in classes
  • The features of classes