JavaScript Tutorial

JavaScript was initially developed to add actions to websites, like the click of a button. But nowadays JavaScript is everywhere and one of the highly demanded skills to have.

What is Javascript

JavaScript is the programming language of the web. In recent years it has become very popular due to the rise of client-side frameworks like ReactJS and Angular. And also a lot due to a server-side framework like NodeJS.

What is Javascript used for

It is now used to create full-fledged web-apps with MERN(MongoDB, Express, React, Node) or MEAN(MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node)  stack. Everything here from frontend to backend to the database is based on JavaScript. So, to master JavaScript is the first solid step to master them all.
Beside these JavaScript is also used to make Desktop apps with Electron.

History of Javascript

JavaScript was created by American technologist Brendan Eich in 1995 during the early days of the internet. He was recruited by Netscape Communication which required a scripting language for its popular web-browser Netscape Navigator. To defend the idea of JavaScript against competing proposals, Eich wrote the whole language in 7 days in May 1995.

Although it was officially called LiveScript which it was first shipped with Netscape Navigator  2.0 in September 1995, it was renamed to JavaScript in December 1995. It was a marketing ploy by Netscape to give it a name similar to the most popular language at the time i.e. Java.

In November 1996, Netscape submitted JavaScript to ECMA International, which is the international standardization organization. Since then JavaScript is also known as ECMAScript and its various versions are released by ECMA. The biggest update in JavaScript was made by ECMA in 2015 and is known as ES6 version(or ES2015).

JavaScript was challenged in the past by VBScript, JScript, Flash but it always came out as a winner and became the de-facto scripting language of web-browser and the web in general. With the popularity of SPA(Single Page Application) in React and Angular and also Server side implementation with NodeJS, JavaScript is not slowing down in the future.