JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is ubiquitous - it's everywhere! Once known as the language that ran in web browsers, while still true, recent efforts on the part of Google, with their V8 Engine, and the fellows responsible for Node.js, have increased the performance of JavaScript and taken the language out of the browser toward wider application. This means you can write entire apps in JavaScript, from backend to front end, with your whole team speaking the same language!

There's a lot of information on the Internet concerning writing JavaScript apps, here's some execellent resources from from Mozilla, developers of the FireFox web browser:

JavaScript® (often shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

In fact, the Mozilla documentation on JavaScript is an excellent source for instruction on learning JavaScript and for quick references to API.

Here's a few important links within the Mozilla documentation:

• Another Getting Started JavaScript Tutorial
• A JavaScript Guide
• JavaScript API Documentation
• Glossary of Terms