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ES6 class pitfalls

Rico Sta. CruzFebruary 25, 2015

This post was written in 2015.

class Shape {
  get area() {
    return this.width * this.height
  }
}

Decorated functions

ES6 makes it easy to define classes, but you can't have decorated functions. For that, you'll still need to drop to using prototype.

Shape.prototype.iterate = memoize(function () {
  ...
})

Non-method attributes

Same with non-method attributes.

Shape.prototype.template = require('fs').readFileSync(
  './template.html',
  'utf-8'
)

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