The Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy series are my humble attempt at bringing my love for JavaScript to all other C# developers that haven’t yet discovered how awesome this language and its whole ecosystem are. These articles are excerpts of the super duper awesome JavaScript-Mancy book a compendium of all things JavaScript for C# developers.

In this article we are going to take a deep-dive into how to emulate classical inheritance in JavaScript and get to the nearest equivalent to what you are accustomed to in C#. We will focus in the alternatives we had prior to ES6 classes so that you can work with classes even if you are stuck in ES5 and so that you can understand the underlying implementation of ES6 classes which are just syntactic sugar over the JavaScript prototypical inheritance model.

The Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy series are my humble attempt at bringing my love for JavaScript to all other C# developers that haven’t yet discovered how awesome this language and its whole ecosystem are. These articles are excerpts of the super duper awesome JavaScript-Mancy book a compendium of all things JavaScript for C# developers.

In the last two chapters of these OOP mini-series we discussed the pillars of OOP in JavaScript - encapsulation, information hiding and inheritance - and how they differ from what we are accustomed to in C#. In this last chapter we discuss polymorphism and how JavaScript makes it dead simple with the concept of duck typing.

The Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy series are my humble attempt at bringing my love for JavaScript to all other C# developers that haven’t yet discovered how awesome this language and its whole ecosystem are. These articles are excerpts of the super duper awesome JavaScript-Mancy book a compendium of all things JavaScript for C# developers.

Thus far you’ve seen how we can achieve encapsulation in JavaScript by using either object initializers or constructor functions with the new operator. You have also learned how to attain data hiding through both closures and ES6 symbols. The next step is inheritance !

Barbaric Tip of the Week is a weekly series whose main purpose is to share tiny bits of knowledge that I find specially useful and interesting.

I think it was Scott Hanselman who said that you only have so many keystrokes in a lifetime. Yep… That sentence right there was 145 less keystrokes in my personal account. 145 keystrokes that are never coming back…

The Mastering the Arcane Art of JavaScript-mancy series are my humble attempt at bringing my love for JavaScript to all other C# developers that haven’t yet discovered how awesome this language and its whole ecosystem are. These articles are excerpts of the super duper awesome JavaScript-Mancy book a compendium of all things JavaScript for C# developers.

In An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript for C# Developers I gave you a ten thousand feet introduction to object oriented programming in JavaScript. Now it is time to get into the nitty-gritty! We will start with a three part introduction to the pillars of Object Oriented Programming applied to JavaScript: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism.