Token Properties Solution

Let's talk about the token object. 0:00 If you haven't yet, go ahead and open up the token.js file that you created. 0:01 Check the syntax of your token class declaration against mine here. 0:07 Okay, now, let's go ahead and add in our empty constructor method. 0:11 Okay, so after developing the properties for the player object, 0:16 you might have found it easier to think about how to organize the token object. 0:20 That's because a lot of the properties of a token are dependent on the player 0:25 that owns it. 0:30 With that in mind, the first property of the token object should be owner. 0:31 This property will hold a reference to the player object that owns the token. 0:35 This is useful because now each token will have access to the ID and 0:39 the color of the player that owns it. 0:43 Setting it up this way means fewer properties for us to manage later. 0:45 The reference to the player object is passed in when the player token object 0:49 is created. 0:53 Don’t worry about that too much now. 0:54 You'll be writing that method in the next step. 0:56 Next, the token object needs an ID property. 0:58 The main reason a token needs an ID property is because eventually 1:02 there will be many token objects represented in our HTML. 1:07 And we'll need to be able to reference each HTML representation 1:11 individually with an ID for CSS and DOM manipulation purposes. 1:15 For now, I'll set the ID to token. 1:20 But this won't work in the long run because each token ID needs to be unique. 1:22 So how can we do that? 1:27 When we write the method to create the token objects inside the player class, 1:28 you'll see that the token objects are all going to be created inside the for loop. 1:33 On each iteration, a new token will be created. 1:39 And one way to give each token a unique ID is to pass in the loop index. 1:41 I can concatenate this index with the string token and 1:46 then each token object of a given player will now have a unique ID. 1:50 I'm using template literals to do this. 1:54 For a refresher on how to use template literals, 1:57 check the teacher's notes on this video. 2:00 Now I'm also going to concat the value of the owning player's ID property so 2:02 we can tell the tokens of each player apart. 2:08 The final property will be dropped. 2:11 This will hold a true or false, or Boolean value, 2:12 that indicates whether or not that token has been played. 2:16 To start, it will be set to false because none of the tokens have been dropped yet. 2:20 Okay, now that the token constructor method has been created, 2:24 move to the next step, where we'll write the method to create all of the tokens. 2:28