JavaScript is the world’s most popular language in the present world. JavaScript is used by 97.6% of all websites, according to W3Techs. There are a lot of giant companies that use this language to make their websites. Such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay.
What is JavaScript :
JavaScript is a scripting language used to add functionality, create and control dynamic behaviours in the website content. You can also call it the third layer of web technology. Two of which are HTML and CSS, which is helping to make website structure and style, on the other hand, the third is JavaScript which is helping to make your website dynamically update content, control multimedia, animate images etc.
Before coming to NodeJS, considered JavaScript was a client-side language only.
JavaScript’s Origins :
In 1995, JavaScript was invented by Netscape programmer Brandan Eich within 10 days. Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mocha, then LiveScript, and finally renamed to JavaScript.
JavaScript language is similar to Java and less like Scheme or other extant scripting languages. At the time, the Dot-com Boom had begun and Java was the hot new language. That’s why JavaScript chose the name because of a marketing tactic. On the other hand, the name JavaScript came from Netscape’s support of Java applets within its browser.
ECMAScript :
In November 1996, Netscape announced a meeting of the Ecma International standards organization to advance the standardisation of JavaScript. The first edition of ECMA-262 was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly in June 1997. Between 1997 and 1999, they released another three ECMA versions (ES1, ES2, ES3). In 2008, they released ES4 but ECMAScript 4 was abandoned.
ECMA-262 5th edition was published in 2009 and all major browsers (including Internet Explorer) were fully compliant by July 2013. It was a huge success.
Today’s JavaScript :
From its massive success, it achieved more success day by day and programmers consider it a more popular language in the world. JavaScript has huge community support. There has a lot of frameworks & libraries. Such as Ember, Angular, React, and Vue, Jquery and so on. With that frameworks and libraries, programmers can do their work very easily and in a short time. Not only front-end success but NodeJS manages the server site. So, you can manage a full project in one language.
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