Yeah, if prototypical inheritance works for the problem, then the issue of weird constructor calls doesn't come up, because the base class will already exist as a useful object.

Implementing inheritance Let’s image what we want to create with this hierarchy using JavaScript: First of all, we can create ClassA easily.

JavaScript classes provide a much simpler and clearer syntax to create objects and deal with inheritance." A StrongLoop blog post echoes the "syntactic sugar" angle. "ECMAScript 2015, formerly known ...