CS classes and ES6 Classes (WIP)

One of the breaking changes that resulted from ES6 is the creation of the class keyword. While there are quite a few shared idioms in the ES6 version, there are quite a few incompatibilities which have to be dealt with, especially since these features already existed in CS.

Here is a reference on ES6 classes Here is a reference on CS classes

In reality CS expands on the ES native object {} by adding member functions and member variables as prototype members of the object.

Part of this is how ES deals with the new keyword. "using new with a constructor that returns an object will evaluate to the returned object, whereas returning any non-object will evaluate to the new instance." (From this post)

Basic CS Classes:

class A

class B extends class A

Which results in the following JS currently:

// Hoist our variables and a function to 'extend' one object 
// by another by setting the child object's member prototypes from one object to another.
// The 'extend' function is only included if the `extend` keyword is used. 
var A,  
    B,
    extend = function(child, parent) { 
      for (var key in parent) { 
        // Set any non JS functions and properties to the child
        if (hasProp.call(parent, key)) child[key] = parent[key]; 
      } 
      function ctor() { 
        this.constructor = child; 
      } 
      ctor.prototype = parent.prototype; 
      child.prototype = new ctor(); 
      child.__super__ = parent.prototype; 
      return child; 
    },
    hasProp = {}.hasOwnProperty;

A = (function() {
  function A() {}

  return A;

})();

B = (function(superClass) {
  extend(B, superClass);

  function B() {
    return B.__super__.constructor.apply(this, arguments);
  }

  return B;

})(A = (function() {
  function A() {}

  return A;

})());

CS Class Keywords/Sugar

• class
• new
• extends
• constructor
• @ (this)

ES6 Class Keywords

• class
• new
• extends
• constructor
• const
• __proto__

#Oddities of ES6 ES6 doesn't do class hoisting: in other words definitions of a class must occur before they are called/created.

ES6 can have a class definition: class Example {} or named and unnamed class statements: var ex = class Example {} and var ex = class {}