The module pattern really isn't needed anymore

I wrote about this pattern years ago, and wrote an update, and then Classes became broadly available in JavaScript. I was kind of skeptical of class syntax when it came out, but now there really isn’t any reason to use any other kind of “class” style than the ES6 syntax. The module pattern used to have a few advantages:

• You didn’t need to keep remembering what this was referring to - before arrow functions this was a really confusing question.
• You could have private variables.

Well, now classes can use arrow functions to simplify the meaning of this , and private properties are supported everywhere, we can basically declare the practice of using closures as psuedo-classes to be officially legacy.