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		LazerBear on Sept 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Node.js Best Practices If you accidentally forget to use 'new' when you're supposed to, the "constructor" method will change the global object instead of a new object, it can cause strange behavior that is very hard to trace.

hderms on Oct 3, 2014 [–]

Ah, I see. I guess I've never forgotten to use new. That does sound incredibly annoying to debug.

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