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The Node Craftsman Book

You're reading from   The Node Craftsman Book An Advanced Node.js Tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128149
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manuel Kiessling Manuel Kiessling
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Basics in Detail FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with NPM and Packages
3. Test-driven Node.js Development
4. Object-oriented JavaScript 5. Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations Explained 6. Using and Creating Event Emitters 7. Optimizing Code Performance and Control Flow Management Using the Async Library 8. Node.js and MySQL 9. Node.js and MongoDB 10. Part 2: Building a Complete Web Application with Node.js and Angular 11. Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server
12. Milestone 2 – The API Responds with Actual Database Content 13. Milestone 3 – Setting the Stage for a Continuous Delivery Workflow 14. Milestone 4 – Giving Users a Frontend 15. Milestone 5 – More Work on the Backend 16. Milestone 6 – Completing the Backend and Finalizing the Application

Object-orientation, prototyping, and inheritance

So far, we haven't talked about inheritance in JavaScript, so let's do this now.

It's useful to share behaviour within a certain class of objects, but there are cases where we would like to share behaviour between different, but similar classes of objects.

Imagine our virtual world not only had cars, but also bikes. Both drive, but where a car has a horn, a bike has a bell.

Being able to drive makes both objects vehicles, but not sharing the honk and ring behaviour distinguishes them.

We could illustrate their shared and local behaviour as well as their relationship to each other as follows:


Designing this relationship in a class-based language like Java is straightforward: We would define a class Vehicle with a method drive, and two classes Car and Bike which both extend the Vehicle class, and implement a honk and a ring method, respectively.

This...

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