Creating Your Own Objects Part 1

The Object Constructor



In the previous lesson, we created an objectusing the object literal (or initializer) syntax.var person = {
name: "John", age: 42, favColor: "green"
};
This allows you to create only a single object.
Sometimes, we need to set an "object type" that can be used to create a number of objects of a single type.
The standard way to create an "object type" is to use an object constructor function.function person(name, age, color) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
this.favColor = color;
}
The above function (person) is an objectconstructor, which takes parameters and assigns them to the object properties. 
The this keyword refers to the current object.
Note that this is not a variable. It is a keyword, and its value cannot be changed.

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