Class Methods
This lesson teaches how to define methods inside a class and also explains the use of get/set methods in classes.
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Defining Methods in a Class
In the previous lesson, the employee class constructor encapsulated all the properties and methods. However, methods can also be defined outside the constructor in a class.
Whenever a method is declared inside a class, it gets defined on the prototype of that class. Hence, whenever an object instance accesses it, it gets taken from the respective class’s prototype.
Let’s take a look at how that is done.
Example
The following example demonstrates how to define methods outside of the constructor in a class:
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