---
title: "A Basic Guide To Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) patterns in JavaScript"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-basic-guide-to-object-oriented-programming-oop-patterns-in-javascript-lbjdfcgoy
source_url: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/object-oriented-programming-oop-in-javascript-b7f2bbde1230
type: article
source: "JavaScript in Plain English"
published: 2021-04-13T10:54:20.934Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming", "javascript"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 38
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# A Basic Guide To Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) patterns in JavaScript

**[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · 7 min read · 38 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Classes in JavaScript do not work like traditional classes in other languages like Java or C++ instead, classes in JavaScript are just syntactic sugar of Constructor Functions. Getters and setters are basically functions that get and set a value. The body of a class is always executed in strict mode even if they are class declarations.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@idoshamun** · 1 upvotes

> This is a great guide to OOP in JavaScript. It covers every method available to create classes and other principles such as inheritance. The difference between ES6 Class and Prototype. Just give it a read.

**@t4inha** · 0 upvotes

> I learned new things, and really enjoyed the content ô/
>
> If it's of value to anyone, I want to share some demos written in Typescript.
>
> There are 10 Design Patterns: https://github.com/andersonbosa/10-design-patterns-in-typescript

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