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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1996
Designed by: Ecma International
Named after: Java
Aliases: JS, Javascript, javascript, Java Script, ECMAScript, js
File extensions: js, mjs

Wikidata: Q2005

Influenced: ActionScriptasm.jsBallerinaBeanShellChaosCoffeeScriptCurlDartFJAXGleamGoogle Apps ScriptHaxeJS++Kinetic Rule LanguageKotlinLiveScriptMonkey XPascal ScriptPHPQMLTypeScriptZig

Influenced by: AWKCHyperTalkJavaLiveScriptLuaPerlPythonSchemeSelf

Programming paradigms: imperative programminggeneric programmingprototype-based programmingaspect-oriented programmingfunctional programmingevent-driven programming

Language types: functional programming languagescripting languageprototype-based programming languagemulti-paradigm programming languageevent-driven programming languageimperative programming languagestrict programming languageinterpreted languagehigh-level programming language

JavaScript Influence Network

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Hello World in JavaScript

console.log("Hello World");

Free JavaScript books, articles, documentation

AngularJS

:information_source: (deprecated since 2022) see Angular

Backbone.js

Booty5.js

D3.js

Dojo

Electron

Elm

Ember.js

Express.js

Fastify

Hydrogen

Ionic

jQuery

Meteor

Next.js

Node.js

Nuxt.js

Om

React

React Native

Redux

Svelte

Vue.js

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