How to implement chained method calls like jQuery?

Question

So I am (still) completely in love with the almighty jQuery, and I have my own growing library of utilities that I want to codify in a java-script object. And I would like t

Answer 1

Something I did really quick but you can relate to the essence of what we are trying to achieve here -

function ChainingObj() {
  if (!(this instanceof ChainingObj)) {
    return new ChainingObj();
  }
}

ChainingObj.prototype.first = function() {
  console.log("foo");
  return this; //important to return this.
}


ChainingObj.prototype.second = function() {
  console.log("bar");
  return this;
}

var a = ChainingObj().first().second();