object oriented programming in Javascript (part 5)

We have discussed 2 ways of creating object blueprints which are constructor functions and ES6 classes, but there still 1 less popular way of doing so which is the Object.create() method

Creating objects with object.create()

first, the method takes 1 required paramater and another optional param, the first is the prototype to assign to the newly created object and the other is the props of the object

Example

let's recreate the Customer blueprint

const CustomerProto = {
  name: "",
  email: "",
  password: "",
  settings: {},
  cart: [],
  setSettings: function (settings) {
    this.settings = settings;
  },

  orderFood: function (food) {
    console.log(`ordering ${food}`);
  },
};

const customer = Object.create(CustomerProto);

customer.name = "name";
customer.email = "email";
customer.password = "password";
customer.setSettings({});
customer.cart = [];
customer.orderFood("pizza");

the methods declared in the CustomerProto oject will be applied to the new object automatically
as you can see this approach takes more code to work than other methods
in the next post i will talk about the principles of object oriented programming