Understanding Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript
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Understanding Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript

I bombed a whiteboard interview because I couldn't explain __proto__ vs .prototype. Went home and actually figured it out. Here's the prototype chain, Object.create, constructor functions, and why ES6 classes are just syntax over the same old mechanism.

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