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Replies for: I would not say its directly an alternative to ES6 classes since they need to be instantiated and can have its own context per instance. With this ...

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Paweł Kowalski •

Im pretty sure es6 class doesnt have to be instantiated to do some of those things.

IE.

class Test {
  static hello() { console.log('world'); }
}

Test.hello(); // => 'world'
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Livio Brunner •

I think you are referring to:

ES6 classes since they need to be instantiated

I was not referring to static classes here :) I thought it would be clear with the rest of my comment.

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Paweł Kowalski •

Well, class is not static, it just has static methods on it, you can still do everything you do with any other class, plus you can run methods directly, which in combination gives a lot of flexibility.