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Here are seven JavaScript concepts you must understand before you go into your next JavaScript job interview:

1. Prototypes - JavaScript is a prototype-based language. Even more, it's a delegation-based system, which means that each object has a prototype chain. When you try to access a property on an object, and that property is not found, JavaScript looks at the object's prototype. The prototype is a delegate object, which means that the property lookup is delegated to the prototype object. That object, in turn, may have its own prototype. The search continues up the prototype chain until it reaches the root prototype, which is usually Object.prototype. The best feature of this system is that many object instances can share the same methods on a prototype object, which conserves memory and enables easy code reuse. To assign a prototype to a new object, you can use Object.create(prototypeObject). Prototypal OO is the first course being offered in the "Learn JavaScript" series.

2. Functional Programming