This is an excellent take! 👏
That said you should strive to use both functions and classes. If you can simplify your functions to allow mostly any primitive input, that’s great. It can be reused many times throughout your code. But if you have certain operations that only work with one type, then don’t be afraid to use a class
This advice looks sound. I'll definitely take it into consideration.
I don’t like/use the
classkeyword in JS, because I quite like the paradigm with prototypes & stuff, and that keyword tries to make it fit into a totally different paradigm, which doesn’t really work IMHO.
I've read somewhere that Javascript is more of a prototype-oriented language rather than an object-oriented one. Do you agree with this?
BTW, I’ve developed a few strats to have my own style in TS that I like quite a lot. I can tell more if you’re interested.
Thank you! But maybe not right now; I'm still learning the basics. Have you considered write an article about it? 😮
Fun fact: I made this meme to explain my classmates static variables.
Yes. Spiders are the superior web developers. They're especially good at eliminating bugs.
TypeScript is next on my list. The loose typing of JavaScript drives me a little nuts sometimes 😅.
As long as you’re opting for composition over inheritance, it’s probably fine.
Totally agree with you there.
Probably on the “sparingly” end.
I'm on the same train of thought as you. I feel that relying too much on class ignores the better features that JavaScript has to offer. However, I'm sure that its application is useful on the occasion where inheritance IS (but very rarely) necessary.
Yes. This seems to be one of the common arguments against "classes": they're not exactly classes in the traditional sense, and everything you can do in JavaScript can be done so without touching the class keyword. It's basically syntactic sugar that adds more confusion to the language, or so I heard. I've read this article that explains the flaws behind with this feature: https://www.toptal.com/javascript/es6-class-chaos-keeps-js-developer-up
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/302850
> Hello, everyone 👋. I am a newcomer when it comes to JavaScript. I come from an OOP background (C# and Java). I've recently learned that ES6 has a class keyword that preforms similarly (but not exactly) to common OOP languages. Normally I would be inclined to use this feature in my projects; however, it came to my attention that the usage of class in JavaScript seems to be heavily discussed (mostly in a negative light). My questions to this community are:
>
> - Should it be used often, sparingly, or be outright avoided?
> - What are its advantages and disadvantages?
> - Are there specific cases where the usage of class excels?
>
> Please share your thoughts.
Hello, everyone 👋. I am a newcomer when it comes to JavaScript. I come from an OOP background (C# and Java). I've recently learned that ES6 has a class keyword that preforms similarly (but not exactly) to common OOP languages. Normally I would be inclined to use this feature in my projects; however, it came to my attention that the usage of class in JavaScript seems to be heavily discussed (mostly in a negative light). My questions to this community are:
- Should it be used often, sparingly, or be outright avoided?
- What are its advantages and disadvantages?
- Are there specific cases where the usage of
classexcels?
Please share your thoughts.
Thank you for the advice. Unfortunately I couldn't upload a .gif version; the website throws the following error: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data. I image that this could be the result of a file being too big (the .gif version is 5.27MB). So at the end I decided to upload the .mp4 version (799 KB).
Even if you DO escape, there is no guarantee that you'd leave with your sanity intact.
You would think that being named Null would probably cause a problem. But Jeffrey? lol
I'm starting to learn full-stack development. This meme scares me, ngl.
