Design Patterns in Javascript: Introduction

I have a bit of extra time on my hands right now so I decided to do a series on design patterns in Javascipt. I know some of you have probably heard rumors that Javascript is an object oriented language, right? Well, that is true.
Now some folks used to tell you that Javascript is not object-oriented. They'll probably say something like it's object-based. They'll reason that Javascript doesn't have true inheritance, encapsulation, or polymorphism. What these people really were (and some may still be) saying is that JS does not have class-based object oriented programming, natively. But, classes are not the only way to implement OOP. JS, Lua, and Perl implement OOP using prototypes.

Now since JS is an object-oriented language, we should find at least some of the GOF design patterns useful.

In the next post we will look at the Template Method pattern.