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Anastasia Stojakova
8,974 PointsWhat is the name of the design patten described in the video?
I know that there are many design pattens for implementing inheritance in javascript (e. g. Prototypal inheritance, combination inheritance), but I can’t identify the one described in the video.
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Craig Campbell
14,428 Pointsin JS there is ONLY prototypal "inheritance". If you use new ES6 features like Class, under the hood they still rely on the prototype chain.