JavaScript: Inheritance

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#14 opened on Apr 25, 2015 0 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

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MDN has superior material on this [1,2]. There's not much need to rehash it, but it might be worthwhile to provide some focused & simple examples of creating a class with inheritance, constructor, static and instance methods and properties and an equivalent prototypal example with Object.create.

Also see Babel's class example

This is a bit of an overloaded tricky subject. Let's try and avoid the controversy and provide simple recommendations and additional information for people to decide for themselves.

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