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JavaScript classes were introduced in ES6 to provide a cleaner syntax compared to the prototype-based inheritance method, making it easier for developers familiar with class-based languages to work with JavaScript. Classes do not offer additional functionality but rather act as syntactical sugar over prototypes, allowing objects to extend properties and methods from other objects. While JavaScript has always been prototype-based, classes were added to make the language's object model more familiar and straightforward.

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JavaScript classes were introduced in ES6 to provide a cleaner syntax compared to the prototype-based inheritance method, making it easier for developers familiar with class-based languages to work with JavaScript. Classes do not offer additional functionality but rather act as syntactical sugar over prototypes, allowing objects to extend properties and methods from other objects. While JavaScript has always been prototype-based, classes were added to make the language's object model more familiar and straightforward.

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Understanding Classes in JavaScript

Introduction
JavaScript is a prototype-based language, and every object in JavaScript has a hidden
internal property called [[Prototype]] that can be used to extend object properties and
methods. You can read more about prototypes in our Understanding Prototypes and
Inheritance in JavaScript tutorial.

Until recently, industrious developers used constructor functions to mimic an object-

oriented design pattern in JavaScript. The language specification ECMAScript 2015, often

referred to as ES6, introduced classes to the JavaScript language. Classes in JavaScript do

not actually offer additional functionality, and are often described as providing “syntactical

sugar” over prototypes and inheritance in that they offer a cleaner and more elegant

syntax. Because other programming languages use classes, the class syntax in JavaScript

makes it more straightforward for developers to move between languages.

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