What you'll learn

Objects and functions
Scopes and closures
The "this" keyword and call, bind and apply functions
The module pattern
Prototype-based object-oriented programming
Prototypes vs classes
A deep-dive into the constructor pattern
Classes
Concatenative inheritance and prototype-based OOP
Multiple Inheritance using concatenative inheritance
Private variables and functions
Introduction to TypeScript
Explore a real-world object-oriented javascript application

Requirements

Basic knowledge of javascript (3 months+ experience)
HTML
Knowledge of class-based object-oriented programming (Java, C#, C++, etc.)
Programming knowledge

Description

"- the use of classes ... is the source of a number of complications. This paper discusses prototypes as an alternative to classes ... In a prototype-based language, copying rather than instantiation is the mechanism provided to the user for making new objects."

This is a line from a 1986 research paper discussing prototypes as an alternative to classes. Did you know that javascript is a prototype-based language and does not need classes? Did you know that javascript's Object-Oriented system is actually simpler than classes?

Unfortunately, due to the language being marketed as "Java's little brother", something called the "constructor pattern" was designed as a way to for the language to "look like" class-based Java. The decision to conceal javascript's true identity as a prototype-based language in favor of something that looked like half-baked classes has led to widespread confusion among developers that lives to this day.

In this course, we will explore javascript's true identity as a prototype-based language and look at different ways of doing OOP in javascript. We don't ignore classes or constructors - we will study them deeply and learn how they are abstractions over a prototype-based system and learn how to effectively utilize them.

In this lesson, we will learn how to write effective, maintainable and robust object-oriented code using javascript.

Who this course is for:

Beginning and intermediate javascript developers.
Advanced javascript developers: Many advanced developers I know are unfamiliar with OO secrets of javascript