Message from JavaScript discussions

September 2017

— Yeah

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But that's kind of bad practice in languages with duck-typing, since it means you can't easily subclass/add behaviour

— Or instanceof or isPrototypeOf

— Complex duck typing can also validate functions, I think

— But that's more unit-testy and less production

— Well, instanceof would still work in JS:

class MyError extends SyntaxError {
  ...
}
new TypeError() instanceof Error // true
new MyError() instanceof Error // true

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— I rarely use classes

— I'm getting buffer.alloc is not a function error when I try to install using npm

— What to do

— Lmao

— Update node and / or npm?

— I resolved it