Can I construct a JavaScript object without using the new keyword?

Question

Here is what I\'d like to do:

function a() {
  // ...
}
function b() {
  //  Some magic, return a new object.
}
var c = b();

c instanceof b // -> true
c          


        

Answer 1

You can create instances without the new operator (here is a great article written about this by Douglas Crockford http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/11/13/javascript-we-hardly-new-ya/). But it will not help you with the "instanceof" story.