它并不总是必要的，但它确实有它的用途。假设我们想在基类Person上创建一个复制方法。是这样的:

// define the Person Class  
function Person(name) {
    this.name = name;
}  

Person.prototype.copy = function() {  
    // return new Person(this.name); // just as bad
    return new this.constructor(this.name);
};  

// define the Student class  
function Student(name) {  
    Person.call(this, name);
}  

// inherit Person  
Student.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype);

现在，当我们创建一个新的Student并复制它时会发生什么?

var student1 = new Student("trinth");  
console.log(student1.copy() instanceof Student); // => false

副本不是Student的实例。这是因为(如果没有显式检查)，我们将无法从“基”类返回Student副本。我们只能返回Person。然而，如果我们重置了构造函数:

// correct the constructor pointer because it points to Person  
Student.prototype.constructor = Student;

.．.然后一切都按照预期进行:

var student1 = new Student("trinth");  
console.log(student1.copy() instanceof Student); // => true

编辑，其实我错了。注释掉一行并不会改变它的行为。(我测试过)

是的，这是必要的。当你这样做时

Student.prototype = new Person();  

student。prototype。constructor变成Person。因此，调用Student()将返回Person创建的对象。如果你这样做了

Student.prototype.constructor = Student; 

Student.prototype.constructor被重置回Student。现在，当您调用Student()时，它执行Student，它调用父构造函数parent()，它返回正确继承的对象。如果你在调用Student.prototype.constructor之前没有重置它，你将得到一个没有在Student()中设置的任何属性的对象。

当你需要toString的替代而不需要monkeypatching时，它是必要的:

//Local foo = []; foo.toUpperCase = String(foo).toUpperCase; foo.push("a"); foo.toUpperCase(); //Global foo = []; window.toUpperCase = function (obj) {return String(obj).toUpperCase();} foo.push("a"); toUpperCase(foo); //Prototype foo = []; Array.prototype.toUpperCase = String.prototype.toUpperCase; foo.push("a"); foo.toUpperCase(); //toString alternative via Prototype constructor foo = []; Array.prototype.constructor = String.prototype.toUpperCase; foo.push("a,b"); foo.constructor(); //toString override var foo = []; foo.push("a"); var bar = String(foo); foo.toString = function() { return bar.toUpperCase(); } foo.toString(); //Object prototype as a function Math.prototype = function(char){return Math.prototype[char]}; Math.prototype.constructor = function() { var i = 0, unicode = {}, zero_padding = "0000", max = 9999; while (i < max) { Math.prototype[String.fromCharCode(parseInt(i, 16))] = ("u" + zero_padding + i).substr(-4); i = i + 1; } } Math.prototype.constructor(); console.log(Math.prototype("a") ); console.log(Math.prototype["a"] ); console.log(Math.prototype("a") === Math.prototype["a"]);

下面是MDN的一个例子，我发现它对理解它的用法很有帮助。

在JavaScript中，我们有返回AsyncFunction对象的async函数。AsyncFunction不是一个全局对象，但可以通过使用构造函数属性检索它并利用它。

function resolveAfter2Seconds(x) {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      resolve(x);
    }, 2000);
  });
}

// AsyncFunction constructor
var AsyncFunction = Object.getPrototypeOf(async function(){}).constructor

var a = new AsyncFunction('a', 
                          'b', 
                          'return await resolveAfter2Seconds(a) + await resolveAfter2Seconds(b);');

a(10, 20).then(v => {
  console.log(v); // prints 30 after 4 seconds
});

我不同意。不需要设置原型。取完全相同的代码，但去掉原型。构造函数。有什么变化吗?不。现在，进行以下更改:

Person = function () {
    this.favoriteColor = 'black';
}

Student = function () {
    Person.call(this);
    this.favoriteColor = 'blue';
}

在测试代码的末尾……

alert(student1.favoriteColor);

颜色是蓝色的。

对原型的更改。构造函数，根据我的经验，没有做太多，除非你做非常具体，非常复杂的事情，这可能不是一个好的实践:)

Edit: After poking around the web for a bit and doing some experimentation, it looks like people set the constructor so that it 'looks' like the thing that is being constructed with 'new'. I guess I would argue that the problem with this is that javascript is a prototype language - there is no such thing as inheritence. But most programmers come from a background of programming that pushes inheritence as 'the way'. So we come up with all sorts of things to try and make this prototypical language a 'classic' language.. such as extending 'classes'. Really, in the example they gave, a new student is a person - it isn't 'extending' from another student.. the student is all about the person, and whatever the person is the student is as well. Extend the student, and whatever you've extended is a student at heart, but is customized to fit your needs.

克罗克福德有点疯狂和过分热心，但认真阅读他写的一些东西。它会让你从不同的角度看待这个问题。

这有一个巨大的陷阱，如果你写

Student.prototype.constructor = Student;

但如果有一个老师，他的原型也是人，你写

Teacher.prototype.constructor = Teacher;

那么学生构造函数现在是老师!

编辑: 您可以通过确保您已经使用使用Object创建的Person类的新实例设置了Student和Teacher原型来避免这种情况。创建，如Mozilla示例中所示。

Student.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype);
Teacher.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype);