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Inheritance — Complete Guide

Inheritance — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of JavaScript Tutorial on Toolliyo Academy.

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Inheritance

Basics ✓Objects & dataAsync & DOMAdvancedToolsProjects

Intermediate · 2 — Built-in types & objects · ~6 min · JS Objects & Collections

What is this?

Inheritance lets one class extend another — the child gets the parent methods and can add or override behavior.

Why should you care?

Admin extends User avoids duplicating shared fields and methods.

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class Animal {
  speak() { return "..."; }
}
class Dog extends Animal {
  speak() { return "Woof!"; }
}
console.log(new Dog().speak());

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Result

What happened?

  • extends links Dog to Animal.
  • Dog overrides speak.
  • super.speak() would call the parent version.

Practice next

  1. Run Dog extends Animal example.
  2. Add constructor(name) { super(); this.name = name; }.
  3. Call super.speak() from an override.
  4. Create Admin extends User that adds isAdmin: true in constructor.
  5. Override greet in child to prepend a role prefix.

Remember

extends Parent super() in constructor Override methods in child

ScriptVerse role hierarchy

AdminUser extends BaseUser to add permission checks while reusing login and profile logic.

Outcome: Inheritance shares common code without duplicating authentication flows.

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JavaScript Tutorial

Tutorial — Basics
Control Flow & Functions
Objects & Collections
Strings, Dates & RegEx
Async JavaScript
HTML DOM & Web APIs
Advanced
Performance & Security
Testing & Tooling
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