DCL

An elegant OOP with mixins + AOP for JavaScript.

New major release: 2.0

New major release 2.0 for Node and ES5 browsers builds on 1.x branch, and adds following features:

  • Simplified API.
  • Supports ES5 features: getters, setters, generic property descriptors.
    • Internally all properties are defined using ES5 property descriptor API.
  • Properties can be defined using the classic object notation, and the list of property descriptors.
  • New decorator: dcl.prop().
    • Property descriptors can be specified directly.
    • Getter and setters can be advised as easy as regular methods.
    • Supports “class”-wide defaults for configurable, enumerable, and writable.
  • detectProps mode can detect property descriptors in-line without decorators.
  • Node’s require() import, and AMD are supported out of box.
  • For convenience a version based on browser globals is provided.

At the same time it continues to support successful familiar features:

  • Mixin-style OOP.
    • The same trusted and proven C3 MRO linearization algorithm for inherited mixins.
  • Full set of AOP.
    • Supports “class” definitions.
    • Regular objects can be advised dynamically.
  • The same library of useful advices, bases, and mixins.
  • Special debugging facilities, which helped our users with tricky cases.
  • Rigorously documented.

Version 1.x is still supported and will continue to be available for legacy browsers.

Check out the full documentation. Use the installation guide to start using the new dcl in your projects.