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Nitpick, on the nothing can save me there part. This is arguably a failure of `your-class`'s API.

A file exposing a class SHOULD either wrap it: `module.exports = function () { return new YourClass(); }` or use `if (!(this instanceof YourClass)) return new YourClass()` guards in the constructor to stop users of a class having to worry about whether or not to use new.

At least this seems to be the convention many module publishers seem to adhere to.

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Yeah, but that falls under epediaman's "Stop over-engineering. YAGNI!" quote.

If you want the benefits of `new` without exposing your interface, you should totally wrap it.

But if you're going to have boilerplate like that for code that not's performance critical (and most of it is not), why not just go for Object.create() and returning the instance yourself. Less action at a distance.

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