This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer.
Explainer
Inheritance is an important paradigm in OOP. It refers to the concept that methods and properties defined by a parent class are available on all of its subclasses, e.g. an Animal class with the method bark will have this method available on other classes which extend it.
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This is specifically class-based OOP and doesn't apply to prototype-based OOP