OOJS help - struggling with the concept

Question

Hey!

I've been following along with the OOJS course and i'm getting a bit confused, so I tried to build something that I thought would help demystify things a little, but i'm running into a few issues.

I'm trying to make a simple stopwatch application, but only the workings, i'm not concerned with showing anything to the user at this point.

In my app.js file, I have a few variables declared to allow a few buttons to be pressed:

const start = document.querySelector(`#start`);
const stop = document.querySelector(`#stop`);
const reset = document.querySelector(`#reset`);
const stopwatch = new Stopwatch;

start.addEventListener('click', stopwatch.start);
stop.addEventListener('click', stopwatch.stop);
reset.addEventListener('click', stopwatch.reset);

And in my Stopwatch.js file, I have a class defined with some methods.

class Stopwatch {
    constructor() {
        this.reading = 0;
        this.isActive = false;
        this.startTime = null;
        this.stopTime = null;
        this.duration = null;
    };

    start() {
        console.log('starting');
        this.startTime = new Date();
    };

    stop() {
        console.log('stopping');
        this.stopTime = new Date();
        this.duration = `${(this.stopTime - this.startTime) / 1000}s`;
    };

    reset() {
        this.isActive = false;
        this.startTime = null;
        this.stopTime = null;
        this.duration = null;
    };
}

My question is... when I try and use the methods (stopwatch.start(), stopwatch.stop() etc), the objects values aren't being updated. If I replaced the this keyword with stopwatch, then it does work, but doesn't this make using OOJS redundant?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1 · 2021-06-22T23:58:34Z

June 22, 2021 11:58pm

This looks to me like it would work. Why do you think your object properties are not being updated?

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