Inheritance
Explore how JavaScript implements inheritance through prototypes and prototypal chaining. Understand how objects inherit properties and methods from other objects, enabling efficient code reuse and hierarchical structures in your programs.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Background
While playing around with classes and constructor functions, we implemented OOPs. We also created segments of specialized code and understood the underlying implementation of prototypes. In this lesson, we will create links between specialized objects so they can inherit the properties of other objects.
Introduction to inheritance
Inheritance in OOPs is the ability for a class to take properties of another class. It derives a new class based on a pre-existing one where the base class inherits ...