Still confused about prototype-based inheritance? Still think that JavaScript needs classes and full inheritance? It all looks a lot simpler if you try to forget the classical way of doing things and ...

As a front-end developer, I meet a lot of people who write JavaScript. The majority of them do little more than include jQuery and a few plug-ins in order to add a fancy lightbox effect or an image ...

You can also build up chains of prototype objects and this is where the mechanism starts to look like classical inheritance. The rule is that if you set the prototype to be an object that was created ...