More mermaids! The last part showed how to create and instantiate classes in 5 different ways (functional, functional-shared, prototypal, pseudo-classical and in ES6. In ES6, we have briefly covered subclasses, but not in totality. Here, I propose we take more time to show JavaScript’s different subclass patterns.

1. Functional-Shared Pattern

Remember how we would create a class -I’ve commented the steps:

You obviously first define the subclass - you pass the properties needed as the arguments, then set an object containing the parent object: as the name indicates — a sub-class “inherits” from the parent class’ properties and methods.That’s why you need to…

And with mermaids! -You’ll understand in a sec -

So, you might have heard that Classes in Javascript are “new” since ECMAScript 2015. But they’ve always been there. It’s just syntactical sugar for the old known prototype handling.

A class is basically a syntax for defining constructor functions and the prototype properties. But keep in mind -in JavaScript, classes are not the same as they are in other languages like Java. Java is class-based; JavaScript is prototype-based. For example, JavaScript prototypes can be redefined at runtime, and has immediate effect for all referring objects, while Java classes cannot be redefined…

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