(Open Source) Examples of JavaScript Prototypical OO

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Bounty Edit:

I'm looking for code written in a pure prototypical OO paradigm (think Self). Not a mixture of prototypical OO and classical OO. I don't want to see generic OO wrappers but simply usage of prototypical OO techniques and only prototypical OO techniques.

Reference Related Question:

Prototypical OO in JavaScript

In the above question I mainly focused on

Can write prototypical OO like this?

Do we need constructors and initialization logic, What are the alternatives?

New question:

Basically are there any good examples of javascript prototypical OO in large open source projects?

Clarification:

I will have to clarify what I mean with prototypical OO :

  • There are no classes. There are only Objects.
  • There is zero emulation of the concepts of classes, again there is only objects and cloning objects to create new objects.

Further Clarification of Prototypical OO:

The difference between prototypical OO in JavaScript and classical OO emulation is a very grey area. It's not that I value avoiding classical OO. I want to learn prototypical OO in an academic fashion in it's own right, without learning the (probably more optimum) combination of classical OO emulation and prototypical OO.

This is why I "ban" classes, just so that I can see these techniques in a pure fashion and extend my own OO tool kit.

Examples:

Popular examples like jQuery fail to meet the second criteria. The jQuery object is one big class emulation. It focuses on creating new objects from a class rather then cloning existing objects.

If I actually knew any example of using "pure" prototypical OO I would have shown you. I believe 99% of JavaScript OO is too heavily influenced by classical emulation.

Bonus points

If

  • It's well comented / documented
  • Has unit tests
  • Is on github.

I will also accept articles / tutorials and examples on how to write prototypical OO code that goes beyond your trivial hello world application.

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