For years, OOP (object-oriented programming) was the de-facto standard in software engineering. The concepts of classes, polymorphism, inheritance, and incapsulation dominated and revolutionized the development process. But everything has an expiration date, programming paradigms included. In this article I will talk about why were classes introduced in the first place, why it is a bad idea to use classes in JavaScript, and what are some of the alternatives.

I am not going to talk about why OOP is fading away in general, but you can check out this great article for more info.

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