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3 ways of implementing the Singleton pattern in JavaScript

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  1. // WAY 1 - Instantiating an anonymous function
  2. var MySingleton = new (new MyClass(args));
  3.  
  4. // WAY 2 - Using an instance manager
  5. var getMySingleton = (function(options) {
  6. 	function MyClass(args) {}
  7.  
  8. 	var singleton;
  9. 	return function(args) {
  10. 		return singleton ? singleton : singleton = new MyClass(args);
  11. 	}
  12. })();
  13.  
  14. // WAY 3 - The simple way
  15. var MySingleton = {
  16. 	prop: "foo",
  17. 	method: function() {},
  18. 	...
  19. };

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