EdTech: How To Overcome Configuration Challenges with Collaboration Tools in Higher Ed
Small businesses are modernizing their workflows with cloud-based tools that offer features such as automation, predictive analytics and integrated communication. Many of these tools are also embedded ...
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It is NOT 'bad' to use the new keyword. But if you forget it, you will be calling the object constructor as a regular function. If your constructor doesn't check its execution context then it won't notice that 'this' points to different object (ordinarily the global object) instead of the new instance. Therefore your constructor will be adding properties and methods to the global object ...
You should use new when you wish an object to remain in existence until you delete it. If you do not use new then the object will be destroyed when it goes out of scope.