Prototypal inheritance: The Big Secret Behind Classes In JavaScript

People sometimes find it easier to believe a little lie than to spend time trying to understand a complex truth (have you ever seen the matrix movie?). In JavaScript, classes, as we know them from other languages ​​like Java, don’t exist. So how does class inheritance work in JS? In this article, we will find the answers by analyzing what happens behind the scenes.

What is a class?JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language, which means you can write code following different programming styles. Still, the most prominent and used is the Object-Oriented paradigm or OO to friends.In this paradigm, we represent real-world problems through the concepts of objects and classes.

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JavaScript Prototypes. It Doesn't Have to Be Complicated.

It’s hard to skip prototypes (or the prototype chain or prototypal inheritance) if you want to dive deeper into JS development (Not only pure JS, but also Node.js, Frameworks like Vue.js, React.js, Angular,…).

If you are like me a few years ago and get some serious headache each time you have to deal with prototypes in JavaScript, this will probably be THE article you were looking for to get your head wrapped around the principle of prototypes in JS.

From the  MDN documentation (don’t be scared, we’ll clarify everything below):

When it comes to inheritance, JavaScript only has one construct: objects. Each object has a private property (referred to as [[Prototype]]) which holds a link to another object called its prototype. That prototype object has a prototype of its own, and so on until an object is reached with null as its prototype. By definition, null has no prototype, and acts as the final link in this prototype chain.

Private [[Prototype]] property

Refer back to the below illustration whenever you feel the need, it might help you to wrap your head around this concept easier.

So let’s start from the base. Every object in JavaScript has a private [[Prototype]] prototype, which holds a reference to another object (or null). This means, that our new object will have access to methods and properties of that referenced object.

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Prototypal Inheritance — The second pillar of Javascript

All you need to know about Prototypal Inheritance — The second pillar of Javascript
What we will learn here will help us understand Object-oriented programming(OOP).

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Private Class Fields and Methods in JavaScript Classes

JavaScript private class fields and methods are new features for JavaScript classes. In this tutorial, you will learn all you need to know about this feature. You will learn about what private methods and class fields are and how they work. You will also learn how to use them in your projects.

Introduction

When you want to add some data to JavaScript class you can do so through class properties. These properties are by default always public. This also means that they are publicly accessible and modifiable. The same also applies to class methods. They are also public by default.

This might often be okay. However, sometimes, you may want to keep some properties or methods private. You may want to make them inaccessible from the outside of the class they are defined in. This is where private methods and class fields can be handy.

Keeping it private

The idea of keeping some things private is simple and straightforward. When you want to keep something private, be it a property or method, it should be accessible only from one place. This place is the class in which you defined that property or method.

If you try to access private class field or method from elsewhere JavaScript should not allow it. This includes outside the class in which the class field or method is defined. Also any instance of that class. However, it is possible to access private class field from a method inside the same class.

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Brief prototypical inheritance vs classical inheritance in Javascript

You have probably heard of the terms prototypical inheritance and classical inheritance a lot. But what do they actually mean?

Before digging into these inheritance definitions, you need to understand what are prototypes and classes are in javascript.

A Prototype is an object that contains a list of methods and fields that are accessible by default.

Let’s take indexOf method from string for example. We never defined it but yet anytime we want to access this method from any string, we can do it.

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Prototypal inheritance: The Big Secret Behind Classes In JavaScript

People sometimes find it easier to believe a little lie than to spend time trying to understand a complex truth (have you ever seen the matrix movie?). In JavaScript, classes, as we know them from other languages ​​like Java, don’t exist. So how does class inheritance work in JS? In this article, we will find the answers by analyzing what happens behind the scenes.

What is a class?JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language, which means you can write code following different programming styles. Still, the most prominent and used is the Object-Oriented paradigm or OO to friends.In this paradigm, we represent real-world problems through the concepts of objects and classes.

#coding #programming #javascript