Description

Full class implementation in JavaScript for jQuery 1.4+

• Highly extensible. Everything is exposed. Add new functionalities as easily as with jQuery.
• Supports multiple levels of inheritance (Some JavaScript libraries only support one)
• Fully prototype based inheritance, allowing the use of the 'instanceof' operator
• Implicit constructors
• Supports calling the super method or any method of the super class
• Easily use class variables (also known as static variables)
• Faster than "closure" based classes
• Light syntax
• Modify methods at run time, thanks to dynamic super method calls
• Saves memory compared to "closure" based classes (1 or 1000 instances all share the same methods)
• Short jQuery syntax like "$.klass", "init"
• Your code can be minified without limitation. Klass doesn't rely on the string representation of functions (See: Closure Compiler Limitations)

A few extensions are available to add the functionnality you need. * private properties: a private variables solution for prototype based inheritance * traits: add the same methods to multiple classes (much like mixins) * proxy: * namespace:

There are 3 projects: * jquery-klass-plugin: a complete rewrite. Cleaner code, more extensible. * jquery-tinyklass-plugin: the original project. Focus on small code size. * jquery-klass-qunit: unit tests for the 2 above projects

See the Overview to get started.

Or directly go to the documentation: * Klass * Private properties * Traits * Proxy * Namespace