Consider a base class (constructor function) called Vehicle which we will use to inherit the properties from.

// Vehicle base class
const Vehicle = function (type, year, numberOfTyres) {
  this.type = type;
  this.year = year;
  this.numberOfTyres = numberOfTyres;
};

Let's make another class called Car and inherit the properties from the Vehicle class using the call() method available in the Vehicle constructor function or class.

// Vehicle base class
const Vehicle = function (type, year, numberOfTyres) {
  this.type = type;
  this.year = year;
  this.numberOfTyres = numberOfTyres;
};

// Car class
const Car = function (name, type, year, numberOfTyres) {
  // inheriting properties
  Vehicle.call(this, type, year, numberOfTyres);
  this.name = name;
};

The call() method available in the Vehicle class is used to inherit the properties and methods from the Vehicle class.

• The method accepts the context to call the function as the first argument in our case we provided the this keyword so that context of the Vehicle class is now the Car class.
• The remaining parameters in the call() method are supplied to Vehicle class to populate its appropriate field, in our case type, year, and numberOfTyres fields.

Now let's make an instance of Car using the new keyword and supplying required values to it.

// Vehicle base class
const Vehicle = function (type, year, numberOfTyres) {
  this.type = type;
  this.year = year;
  this.numberOfTyres = numberOfTyres;
};

// Car
const Car = function (name, type, year, numberOfTyres) {
  // inheriting properties
  Vehicle.call(this, type, year, numberOfTyres);
  this.name = name;
};

// Make an instance of Car
const BMW = new Car("BMW", "car", 2020, 4);

If we look into the contents inside the BMW object we can now see all the properties which were defined in the Vehicle and Car classes

console.log(BMW);

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Result:
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{
    name: "BMW"
    numberOfTyres: 4
    type: "car"
    year: 2020
}


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We will be discussing inheriting methods in the next post.

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