Outline of the JavaScript programming language

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Short description: High-level programming language

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to JavaScript:

JavaScript (/ˈdʒɑːvəskrɪpt/), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2024, 98.9% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior,[1] often incorporating third-party libraries. All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on users' devices. no


What type of language is JavaScript?

  • Programming language — artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer.
    • High-level programming language — a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer, such as having words, making it closer to natural language and easier to use than low level programming languages (which are much more cryptic).
      • Compiled language — source code is converted ("compiled") to an intermediate form in order to be run.
      • Dynamic programming language — allows various operations to be determined and executed at runtime, such as declaring data types, unlike in static languages, where the structure and types are fixed during compilation.
      • Multi-paradigm programming language — A programming paradigm is a relatively high-level way to conceptualize and structure the implementation of a computer program. JavaScript supports many paradigms.
        • Scripting language — programming language that is used for scripting, which is the act of writing a script, which is a relatively short and simple set of instructions which automate an otherwise manual process.
        • Event-driven programming language — the flow of programs is determined by external events, such as inputs from mice, keyboards, touchpads and touchscreens, and external sensors.
        • Imperative programming language — code directly controls execution flow and state change, explicit statements that change a program state
        • Declarative programming language — its code declares properties of the desired result, but not how to compute it, describes what computation should perform, without specifying detailed state changes
          • Functional programming language — a desired result is declared as the value of a series of function evaluations, uses evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data

History of JavaScript

Javascript fundamentals

Issues and limitations

Specifications of the language

  • ECMAScript – this specification defines and standardizes the JavaScript language, such as its vernacular, syntax, and so on.
    • ECMAScript version history
    • Ecma International – the non-profit organization responsible for ECMAScript and many other communications standards.

Where JavaScript works (its runtime environments)

JavaScript works primarily in two main types of runtime environments:

Adaptive web design

Adaptive web design

JavaScript toolchain

Libraries

Package managers

Bundlers

Transpilers

Linters and formatters

Testing tools

Build and development tools

  • Vite

General JavaScript concepts

JavaScript organizations

JavaScript publications

Books about JavaScript

  • DOM Scripting – Jeremy Keith
  • Eloquent JavaScript – Marijn Haverbeke
  • How JavaScript Works – Douglas Crockford
  • JavaScript Bible – Danny Goodman
  • JavaScript: The Good Parts – Douglas Crockford
  • Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: JavaScript – Laura Lemay
  • Learn to Program with JavaScript – John Smiley
  • Pro JavaScript Techniques and Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja – John Resig

JavaScript programmers

  • Douglas Crockford
  • Danny Goodman
  • Jeremy Keith
  • Laura Lemay
  • John Resig
  • John Smiley

See also

Outlines of other programming languages

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "Usage Statistics of JavaScript as Client-side Programming Language on Websites, January 2024". https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cp-javascript. 
  2. ↑ "What do client side and server side mean? | Client side vs. server side". https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/client-side-vs-server-side/. 

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