Inheritance in ES6
Explore how to use the extends keyword to create child classes from parent classes in ES6 JavaScript. Understand the role of super() in initializing inherited properties and practice with examples to implement class-based inheritance correctly.
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Let’s learn how to implement inheritance in the ES6 version of JavaScript.
Syntax
The underlying concept regarding the implementation of inheritance is the same in both versions ES5 and ES6; however, the latter provides a cleaner syntax as well as some new keywords that can be used during the implementation.
The ES6 version uses the keyword extends which creates a class that is the child of another class.
The following is the syntax used in ES6:
First, the child class to be made is written followed by the extends keyword, then the ...