I don't understand Crockford on [removed] The Way Forward

Question

In a lecture called "The Way Forward", Douglass Crockford shares that he no longer uses "new" in his JavaScript, and is weaning himself off of "this&quo

Answer 1

The purpose of the assignment is to make the method "public". Without this assignment, the method is "private" to the "class".

Maybe i can try to make the code more understandable :

function constructor(init) {
    // Call the mother constructor. Or just do that = init.
    var that = other_constructor(init);

    // Private members
    var member1, member2;

    // Methods
    var method1 = function() {
        do_stuff();
    };

    var method2 = function() {
        do_stuff();
    };

    // Make some method public.
    that.method1 = method1;

    return that;
}

Then in you code, you can use your constructor like this :

var obj = constructor(other_obj);
obj.method1();