A Brief History of JavaScript
Learn about JavaScript's origins in 1995 and its growth into a dynamic, object-oriented language that enables rich web pages and complex front-end apps. Understand key concepts like ES2015 classes, client-side validation, and meta-programming to build effective web applications.
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The history of JavaScript
JS was developed as the HTML scripting language for Netscape’s Navigator 2 browser over ten days in May of 1995 by Brendan Eich, who was a Netscape employee at that time. At the O’Reilly Fluent Conference in San Francisco in April 2015, Eich said, “I did JavaScript in such a hurry, I never dreamed it would become the assembly language for the Web.”
JavaScript is a dynamic, functional, object-oriented programming language that can be used for the following purposes.
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Enrich a web page
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