‘Prefer composition over inheritance’ is an important and popular programming principle, used to assign behaviors to objects, as opposed to inheriting many often unneeded behaviors.

Behaviour factories

var speaker = function (state) {
    var noise = state.noise || 'grunt';

    return {
        speak: function () {
            console.log(state.name + ' says ' + noise);
        }
    };
};

var mover = function (state) {
    return {
        moveSlowly: function () {
            console.log(state.name + ' is moving slowly');
        },
        moveQuickly: function () {
            console.log(state.name + ' is moving quickly');
        }
    };
};

Object factories

var person = function (name, age) {
    var state = {
        name: name,
        age: age,
        noise: 'Hello'
    };

    return Object.assign(     // Merge our 'behaviour' objects
        {},
        speaker(state),
        mover(state)
    );
};

var rabbit = function (name, colour) {
    var state = {
        name: name,
        colour: colour
    };

    return Object.assign(
        {},
        mover(state)
    );
};

Usage

var fred = person('Fred', 42);
fred.speak();        // outputs: Fred says Hello
fred.moveSlowly();   // outputs: Fred is moving slowly

var snowy = rabbit('Snowy', 'white');
snowy.moveSlowly();  // outputs: Snowy is moving slowly
snowy.moveQuickly(); // outputs: Snowy is moving quickly
snowy.speak();       // ERROR: snowy.speak is not a function