Javascript Under The Hood
Javascript is a lightweight programming language. It has been around a long time. In this article, I will be giving giving a high level overview of Javascript, how it evolved and you can use it to build real world systems. History Of Javascript Javascript was initially developed to add dynamic behavior to static web pages. It was developed as a scripting language by Netscape around the year 1995. It’s interpreter was shipped along with the Netscape Navigator browser. Over the years, it was adopted by other browsers like Internet Explorer. Google also released its Chrome browser with the Javascript engine. Early usage of Javascript As mentioned earlier, Javascript was initially developed to add dynamic behavior to static web pages. The Javascript engine is shipped as part of the browser. So it integrates with HTML and executes in the browser. It was primarily used for client side validations. So for example, if you have an HTML form that accepts a phone number, you can use client ...