The Prototype pattern creates new objects by cloning an existing object (the prototype), avoiding the cost of creating objects from scratch and leveraging JavaScript's prototypal inheritance.
The Prototype pattern creates objects based on a template of an existing object through cloning. This pattern is particularly useful when object creation is expensive, when objects have many shared properties, or when you need to avoid subclassing. In JavaScript, this pattern aligns naturally with the language's prototypal inheritance model, where objects can inherit directly from other objects[citation:7].