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JavaScript

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Matěj Chalk edited this page Jul 28, 2020 · 5 revisions

JavaScript is an interpretted multi-paradigm programming language, best known as the scripting language of the web (although it also runs in non-browser environments nowadays, e.g. Node.js). The standard for JavaScript is ECMAScript, which has incorporated many new language constructs in recent versions.

Modern JavaScript

features introduced in ES2015 (aka ES6) - see workshop slides
functional programming principles (declarative, immutable, pure)
TypeScript

Node & NPM

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime
NPM is the Node package manager