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Anthony Kelly
15,649 PointsCan a class only have one constructor?
Instantiating the class here seems to pass arguments immediately to a constructor function nested inside of it. If a class had multiple constructors, what would calling them look like? Or are classes themselves limited to one constructor?
5 Answers
Steven Parker
210,422 PointsAccording to MDN (my favorite go-to resource):
Having more than one occurrence of a constructor method in a class will throw a SyntaxError error..
So yes, a class can only have one constructor.
Franklin Rony Cortez Barrera
3,065 PointsBut, what happend when I have a constructor with parameters and the default constructor,without parameters.?
Steven Parker
210,422 PointsYou might be thinking of another language (like C#, which supports method overloading). but In JavaScript, you have only one constructor. If it takes parameters, then to be able to create an instance without arguments you must supply default values for them. For example:
constructor(name = "unknown", age = 0) {
hector alvarado
15,784 PointsI think that in every lenguaje classes only have one constructor. When we instanciate the object there would be needed tho choose how to instanciate, and thats kinda useless, if two objects are really similar then might just make a class to cover them both.
Steven Parker
210,422 PointsI mentioned C# specifically because you can have several constructors in a class, as long as they each have a different signature (number and type of arguments).
Tobiasz Gala
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,517 PointsJavaScript does not support constructor overloading. You can set default values if you don't need all options.
Francisco Ortiz
2,667 PointsAhh, that's good to know! How do you set default values in side the constructor?
Steven Parker
210,422 PointsThere's an example in the comment I left for Franklin on Oct 23.
Franklin Rony Cortez Barrera
3,065 Pointsoh thank you for clarify sir.
Kevin Gates
14,826 PointsKevin Gates
14,826 PointsAnthony Kelly -- this should be marked as the Best Answer as Steven gave you the answer and linked to a resource for further study. :)