[Sugar-devel] Object oriented programming in JS

[Manuel Quiñones]

Hi,

I'm looking the best way to do OOP in JavaScript, which we need in
sugar-web.  I don't mind not doing classical OOP.  I think we should
aim to do what suits better the JavaScript language: Prototypal
Inheritance.

Here is Mozilla documentation:

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Inheritance_and_the_prototype_chain
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Inheritance_Revisited

The first article gives an introduction of prototypes.  The latter
gives a real example of inheritance.

There is also another option, using a helper like stated in:

- http://stackoverflow.com/a/4389429/1178541

I have tried both in a git repo with testscases.  Here is the spec:

- https://github.com/manuq/oop-js/blob/master/src/SuperHero.js

And here are the two implementations:

- https://github.com/manuq/oop-js/blob/master/src/SuperHero.js
- https://github.com/manuq/oop-js/blob/master/src/SuperHeroWithHelper.js

Now I think the option without helper is better.  Although it seems a
bit more verbose and nested.  Thoughts?  Any other options?


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