Introduction to JavaScript

From the very beginning

Field notes while going through the JavaScript Roadmap

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What is JavaScript?

• JavaScript is one of the core technologies used in the World Wide Web (alongside HTML and CSS)
• It is a scripting language typically used to make webpages interactive by programming the behavior of web pages — sliders, alerts, click interactions, popups, etc.
• Modern web browsers support JavaScript through built-in engines
• JavaScript was originally created for the browser. But since the creation of NodeJS in 2009, this runtime engine allows JavaScript to be run outside of the browser. Now we can build real-time, scalable web applications, servers, build desktop applications with Electron and create mobile apps with React Native, etc.
• It supports object-oriented, imperative and delcarative (e.g. functional programming) styles

History of JavaScript

• On 25th December 1990, Sir Tim Berners-Lee introduced the first web browser — WorldWideWeb. It was created on the NeXT computer system in Switzerland — around the same time he created the first web server
• In December 1991, Al Gore invented the internet. He introduced the Gore bill which…