Classes, Inheritance, Functional Programming

Largely based on a reading of the article JavaScript — Just another introduction to ES6 by Gerard Sans

Summary of Classes and Inheritance in ES6

JavaScript is very versatile, and—though it's controversial to some—it has some features/capabilities similar to some "object oriented" programming languages. Object oriented (OO) programming is a huge topic in itself that this page doesn't aim to address. The language has had some capabilities to mock OO behavior in previous versions (ES5), but ES6 builds some of these features into the language itself.

Here's a quick summary of the new OO keywords introduced in ES6 and references to them in the MDN documentation:

• class
• constructor
• extends
• super
• get

Note that ES6 does not include any built-in methods or keywords for private or static methods/properties.

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Resources

Read

• eloquent js - node (chapter 20)
• about nodejs
• just another guide to ES6
• a gentle intro to tdd in js
• getting started with nodeJS on travisCI

Skim

• about v8
• node and es6 docs
• about package.json
• npm scripts as build tools
• npm scripts docs

Watch

• TDD in JS
• what is npm
• Bookmark
• ES6 Features
• npm docs