JavaScript – The Best Developer Code

What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is often abbreviated as JS and is a high-level, interpreted programming language. It also allows a developer to do Web Application Development. It makes dynamic and interactive web pages by implementing custom client-side scripts. JavaScript is a programming language that is characterized as dynamic, weakly typed and prototype-based. Alongside HTML, CSS, Python and many more, JavaScript is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web and it enables interactive web pages which is very essential part of Web Design and Development.

The majority of websites use it and major web browsers across the world have a dedicated JavaScript Engine to execute it.As a multi-paradigm language, JavaScript supports event-driven, object-oriented, prototype-based and many more programming styles. JavaScript has Application Programming Interface for working with text, arrays, dates, regular expressions and many more. 

Uses of JavaScript in Web Development

Over the years JavaScript has become the most popular programming language for web development in nowadays. Recent reports suggest JavaScript is currently used by more than 94 percent of all websites. As JavaScript is a client-side programming language. It helps the developer to do Web Application Development and make dynamic. And user-friendly web pages by implementing custom client-side scripts. Developers have the advantage to use cross-platform runtime engine like Node.js to write server-side code in JavaScript. Developers have created web pages which have work across various browsers, platforms and devices. The developers generally combine JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 to create such web pages.

There are many uses of JavaScript in Web Development and some of them are,

• There are many JavaScript Frameworks available in the web market like AngularJS, ReactJS, and Node JS along with many more and by using these frameworks, the developer can lessen the amount of time and efforts required to develop a JavaScript-based site and app.
• It helps to load a new page content or submitting data to Ajax without reloading the pages.
• JavaScript also helps to animate page elements, fading them in and out, resizing them, and moving them and many more.
• It also helps for adding interactive content for example, playing games audio, video and many more.
• While submitting a Web form, it validates input values to make sure they are acceptable or not before submitting them to server.
• In modern days JavaScript also helps the developers by sending a user’s personal reading habits and browsing activities to various websites for Web analytics, ad tracking, personalization of the web page and many more. 

Conclusion

JavaScript is truly an amazing programming language that helps Web Developers to develop and customize any web page according to their requirements. It also helps the developers to design the web page and put contents in it in a user friendly way. As JS supports object oriented programming it becomes easy to write JS code without using any specific tool. JavaScript also simplifies complex Web Application Development and brings in a responsive web design. Using JavaScript Google has started its Accelerated Mobile Pages project to create websites to deliver rich user experience across various mobile devices.