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How JavaScript came to dominate web development

Jason on October 26, 2020

The story of JavaScript The web gets accessible In the 1990s, the first user-friendly, graphical web-browser ("Mosaic) was re...
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manish srivastava

Nice article. But I think something what makes js more fav for devs.

Js is easy. With npm you get almost of everything you want.
Progressive web app / lite apps are possible with service worker easily. This includes web push notifications .

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Jason

thanks for the feedback!

Sure, NPM and PWAs are built using JavaScript, but for this article, I really wanted to focus on vanilla JavaScript, and how it made, and how it developed as the language we know today.

Maybe I'll do another one on PWAs or NPM ... #ideas

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Abdisalan

How JavaScript dominated the web:
Its literally our only option, otherwise it would've been replaced decades ago.
I like the post though!

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Jan Prazak

But it's changing today. Vanilla JS is not the only option anymore.
We now have TypeScript, Dart, Kotlin and some other languages which "compile" into vanilla JS. Google even tried to get Dart into Chromium but didn't succeed. But it is already possible to use another language than JS and don't care about the final (generated) JS code.

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Ben Halpern

Great post

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Jason

I'm so glad you liked it!

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Aaditya • Edited

That just make studying history fun😀. Great Article

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Jason

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I worked hard to add some fun and enthusiasm to the post!

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Sami

Javascript used to be interpreted. Now it's compiled.

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Jason

Yes and no... at runtime, JavaScript is still an interpreted language, however it is true most web apps today are run through compiliers. Frameworks like React, Next JS, Gatsby, Angular and Vue all use JavaScript compilers like Babel and Webpack to optimize JavaScript source code and minimize bundle sizes to make help it run more efficiently at Runtime, but the when a browser is running JavaScript code, it is still interpreted.

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Lucas Quadros

Hi! My name is Lucas. I1m braziliam develepor.
I studied your content! Good job my brother!