Prototypal 'inheritance'

Inheritance in general, implies 'copying' certain behaviors from a class to create new objects. For every single object(instance) that is created from a certain class, the attributes and behaviors are 'copied'. Class-based languages like C++, Java, etc implement this mechanism of object creation where each object is a separate 'copy' of a class. In languages like Javascript, there is no concept of class! Still, Javascript is object oriented. Object creation and manipulation is pretty simple in Javascript. However, implementing concepts like inheritance is not so straightforward. Javascript is a Prototype-based language, meaning it does not have classes, it only deals with objects. So, the way inheritance works in Javascript is by the use of links or references to the other objects to use or share behaviors.

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