Mixins
Explore how mixins provide a way for JavaScript classes to share methods without forming parent-child inheritance relationships. Understand the concept of mixins as objects containing reusable methods and how to assign them as prototypes to other classes. This lesson helps you implement mixins to make your JavaScript code more modular and flexible by extending class functionality beyond single inheritance.
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What are Mixins?
For a class to call methods from another class it first needs to inherit those methods. The child class extends the parent’s class, inherits its methods, and then invokes them. However, there is a limiting factor: a class can only inherit from another class.
That brings us to the question:
Is there a class whose methods can be inherited by other classes without it having to be their ...