<div><p>No matter how much experience you have with JavaScript, odds are you don&#8217;t fully understand the language. This concise, in-depth guide takes you inside JavaScript&#8217;s this structure and object prototypes. You&#8217;ll learn how they work and why they&#8217;re integral to behavior delegation&#8212;a design pattern in which objects are linked, rather than cloned.</p><p>Like other books in the &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know JS&#8221; series, this and Object Prototypes dives into trickier parts of the language that many JavaScript programmers simply avoid. Armed with this knowledge, you can become a true JavaScript master.</p><p>With this book you will:</p><ul><li>Explore how the this binding points to objects based on how the function is called</li><li>Look into the nature of JS objects and why you&#8217;d need to point to them</li><li>Learn how developers use the mixin pattern to fake classes in JS</li><li>Examine how JS&#8217;s prototype mechanism forms links between objects</li><li>Learn how to move from class/inheritance design to behavior delegation</li><li>Understand how the OLOO (objects-linked-to-other-objects) coding style naturally implements behavior delegation</li></ul></div>