JSINER (originated from JavaScript INheritance supportER) represents a
JavaScript library developed by Alexey Luchkovsky which is intended to simplify writing object oriented code in JavaScript as well as managing
external scripts dependencies.
Unlike of "classical" approach, it supports a "Lazy" way of inheritance implementation, since reference
to parent class is invoked only at the moment of object instance creation.
Basically, it's possible to say that instances of objects in such approach are created in "mixed" mode —
on first invocation, an appropriate factory is used to modify object constructor prototype which is later
used for subsequent object instances creation.
Moreover, since "Lazy inheritance" is called only once at the moment of first object instance creation,
it becomes possible to combine process of class prototype creation with resolving necessary dependencies
of that class. In other words, the process of prototype construction also allows loading scripts (if ones
were not loaded before) which particular class depends on.
Such approach to inheritance support has the following benefits:
- "Lazy inheritance" has the same benefits as classical JavaScript prototype features;
- It is not necessary to maintain proper order of script files declaration (contrary to "classical
inheritance");
- In most cases, HTML page which contains JavaScript based on JSINER is loaded faster since there are no
objects created during page initialization (contrary to prototypal and classical approach) and since
some scripts could be loaded only at the moment in which they are actually necessary (they are
necessary if the caller code during it's execution really creates instances of corresponding classes);
- Dependencies are declared in more explicit way and class depends only on concrete scripts; Moreover,
it's not necessary to artificially group particular scripts into "modules" and define dependencies
between such "modules";
- If lazy mode of scripts loading is used, only necessary scripts (which are actually required for
application functionality) will be loaded. If, for example, some HTML page may operate in different
modes, like "read-write" and "read-only", for every mode required scripts will be loaded and this will
be performed automatically without manual script loading optimization;
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