Anyone who grew up watching the Pokémon anime in the 90s will think are we that old already and secondly about how Ditto plays a role in there. Ditto is a very cool Pokémon who could assume the form of any of the other Pokémon including moves.

This idea comes from JavaScript when there were no classes yet as there are now in ES6. You would write something like this:

So this has been the case for many a year now, that everything in JavaScript land or in this day and age, TypeScript land, is targeting the fact that the developer can use one codebase for everything frontend and backend.