Chapter 10. Simulated Classes and Inheritance

Even though JavaScript loosely approximates classes with Function objects and offers a prototype-based inheritance mechanism that's a little different from what you may be used to if your background is a language like Java or C++, Dojo does a fine job of building upon native JavaScript constructs to simulate classes and class-based inheritance. This chapter dives into dojo.declare, the toolkit's vehicle for wiring up classes and inheritance and, in doing so, paves the way for a solid understanding of the Dijit infrastructure, which is coming up in Part 2.