How to do prototypal inheritance in JavaScript?

Question

I've tried several ways but I couldn't do it.

On the next example I want the Soldier gets all properties of Person, and allowing to add more properties. How to do it correctly?

function Person(name, age) {
    this.name = name;
    this.age = age;
}

Person.prototype.hi = function (message) {
    console.log(message + "!!!");
};

var Soldier = new(Person); // it is not the way to do it

Soldier.prototype.good_hi = function (message) {
    console.log("Sir! " + message + ", sir!");
};

Answer 1

You don't have a Soldier constructor. You need to make that first. Then you'd apply the Person constructor to new Soldier instances.

function Person(name, age) {
    this.name = name;
    this.age = age;
}

Person.prototype.hi = function (message) {
    console.log(message + "!!!");
};

function Soldier(name, age) {
    Person.apply(this, arguments);
}

Soldier.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype); // is better
Soldier.prototype.constructor = Soldier;

Soldier.prototype.good_hi = function (message) {
    console.log("Sir! " + message + ", sir!");
};

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Then use it like this:

var s = new Soldier("Bob", 23);

s.good_hi("Hello");

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/3kGGA/