Confusing JavaScript statement: “var x = new this();”

Question

I thought I understood the concept of the JavaScript prototype object, as well as [[proto]] until I saw a few posts regarding class inheritance.

Firstly, \"JavaScript OO

Answer 1

Imagine the following situation :

var inner = function () {
    var obj = new this;
    console.log(obj.myProperty);
};

var f1 = function () {
    this.myProperty = "my Property"
}

f1.f2 = inner;
f1.f2();

Here the calling object is itself a function, so this will return a function, and we can instantiate it.

In order to use this()(not this) the outer function(the context) must itself return smth that can be instantiated(another function):

var inner = function () {
    var obj = new this();
    console.log(obj.myProperty);
};

var f1 = function () {
    var func = function () {};
    func.myProperty = 'my property';
    return func;
};

f1.f2 = inner;
f1.f2();