Does JavaScript have classes?

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Technically, the statement “JavaScript has no classes” is correct.

Although JavaScript is object-oriented language, it isn’t a class-based language—it’s a prototype-based language. There are differences between these two approaches, but since it is possible to use JavaScript like a class-based language, many people (including myself) often simply refer to the constructor functions as “classes”.

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