Gain insights into writing cleaner, modular, scalable JavaScript code through OOP. Explore basics to advanced concepts like prototypal inheritance, method overriding, and ES6 features.

Learn to write cleaner, more modular, and more scalable code in JavaScript by gaining mastery of Object Oriented Programming (OOP). 

You'll start with the basics of object-oriented programming and build up to more advanced concepts such as prototypal inheritance, prototype chaining, method overriding and mixins. Along the way, you'll learn how each concept applies to JavaScript's sometimes unique way of handling things. You'll also see how various JavaScript features make it particularly convenient for OOP, with particular emphasis on changes introduced in ES6.

This course is filled with hands-on coding challenges, playgrounds, snippets, and illustrations to keep things interactive.

Learn Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript

# Introduction
Just like other variables in JavaScript, an object too has to be defined and initialized in order to be created.
There are various ways to create an object literal. 

An *object literal* can be created:

* by using *figure brackets* `{...}` in the declaration.  

* by using the `new` keyword.

* based on an existing object by using the `create()` method.

All of these approaches do exactly the same thing.

# Syntax

## Figure Brackets
An object contains data values and functions known as its *properties*. Let's take a look at the syntax for creating an object literal using `{..}`:  

var objectName = {  
  
  //properties defined
  propertyName1 : propertyValue1,
  propertyName2 : propertyValue2,
  functionName() {}
  
}

As shown above, to define a property value, we first need to write the name of the property followed by a colon and then the property value.


A property value can be anything, such as:

* *string*
* *integer*
* *boolean*
* *object* 

>**Note:** All properties are separated by a *comma*.

This lesson teaches the different ways to create object literals in JavaScript.

Introduction

Objects in JavaScript

Functions as Objects

OOP in JS - Exam 1

Classes

Inheritance

OOP in JS - Exam 2

Creating an object literal

Introduction

Syntax

Figure Brackets