Plenty of developers now use OOP as standard, and so have been implementing objects in JavaScript for years. Up until now, we’ve been using both frameworks and our own home-brewed solutions, because working with classes in ES5 was a total pain. That always struck me as strange, because it was clear from the outset that ES5 was designed to support classes—in fact, the keyword CLASS was reserved. What this led to was arguments. Everyone turned to their favorite framework and used it to create a...

Plenty of developers now use OOP as standard, and so have been implementing objects in JavaScript for years. Up until now, we’ve been using both frameworks and our own home-brewed solutions, because working with classes in ES5 was a total pain. That always struck me as strange, because it was clear from the outset that ES5 was designed to support classes—in fact, the keyword CLASS was reserved. What this led to was arguments. Everyone turned to their favorite framework and used it to create a...