Classes

I. Javascript Classes

Classes make it easy to create multiple objects that share property names and methods.

II. Define Class

To create a new class, we use class keyword. The class keyword is followed by a CamelCased class name. We always add the constructor() method.

• The constructor() is called when you create a new instance of a class. It sets the property values for each instance.

class Animal {
  constructor(name) {
    this._name = name;
    this._behavior = 0;
  }

III. Methods

Class method and getter syntax is the same as it is for objects except you can not include commas between methods.

class Animal {
  constructor(name) {
    this._name = name;
    this._behavior = 0;
  }

  get name() {
    return this._name;
  }

  get behavior() {
    return this._behavior;
  }   

  incrementBehavior() {
    this._behavior++;
  }
} 

IV. Inheritance

To create a class inheritance, we use the extends keyword.

The subclass inherits all of the parent’s getters, setters, and methods.

The super keyword is used in subclasses to call a parent constructor().

For each subclass, we can also add add getters, setters, and methods.

For example, we can extend Animal to the subclass Cat.

class Cat extends Animal {
  constructor(name, usesLitter) {
    super(name);
    this._usesLitter = usesLitter;
  }

  get usesLitter() {
    return this._usesLitter;
  }
}

V. Create new instance

An instance is an object that contains the property names and methods of a class, but with unique property values.

For example, to create a new Cat, we use keyword new

const milkCat = new Cat('Milk', false);

VI. static method

the static keyword defines a static method for a class.

Static methods are not called on individual instances of the class, but are called on the class itself.

 static generatePassword() {
    return Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);