What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language. It is lightweight, interpreted, and is very easy to learn. JavaScript has been a fundamental technology that helps to drive an interactive experience around the content we consume on the Web. JavaScript runs on the client-side of the web and is used to design how a webpage should behave on the occurrence of an event. 

Why Should Everyone Learn About JavaScript?

1. It is the  world’s most  popular programming language

This can be a harmful headline for people who are exotic lovers of other programming languages and believe in the security and performance they provide. But according to us, JavaScript is the best language to start for a newbie as it has exponential growth in the market and is easy to learn. According to the stackoverflow.com statistics, JavaScript is the most used programming language by professional developers in the world today. This is because in the front-end (for the Web) JavaScript has no rivals. It has competed with all its rivals like Visual Basic Script, Action Script (Flash), or even with JAVA Applets and has stood out to be the best amongst them. 

2. JavaScript is in our Web Browser

JavaScript is in our web browser and we can do all sorts of things on the web browser itself without taking the pain of using any code editors, downloading compilers, and setting up environments. This is one of the biggest reasons to learn about JavaScript. Almost all the web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and the modern browsers of today’s era support JavaScript.

3. The Career Potential For JavaScript Developers  is Skyrocketing

With the increasing demand of the businesses and organizations going digital due to the recent pandemic, there is an increase in demand for people who know better programming languages to solve their business problems. The most important thing to understand is that the most in-demand front-end tools/frameworks are based on JavaScript and it is recommended to know in-depth how JavaScript works.

Businesses and Organizations that are willing to hire JavaScript developers are willing to pay a good amount of money too! Indeed.com shows that a professional JavaScript Developer can earn an annual average of  $112,550 working in the United States. Therefore by learning and understanding JavaScript in depth will allow you to get a good and well-paid job.

4. Largest Community on Stack-overflow

Stack-overflow is a go-to place to get the answers to your questions and as a developer,you might have come in contact with this website to solve your doubts numerous number of times. JavaScript has overtaken Java in terms of the size of its community and is still growing. With a big community around JavaScript, it makes a  developers life easier to  solve problems that come in programming in day to day life.

5. JavaScript is very versatile

JavaScript is very far from being a one-trick pony and it empowers JavaScript developers to do anything. If a developer wants to build good-looking front-end interfaces for the web they can use React, Angular, or Vue for it. If a developer wants to work on the back-end(server-side) they can use Node.js for it. 

As a developer, you can also create desktop and mobile apps using Electron and React Native.                               

There can be thousands of reasons why we should learn JavaScript as a programming language to code and build awesome applications and websites. But the ultimate way to become an expert at coding is to practice, practice, and a lot of practice before you become expert at it.

Common Applications of JavaScript Programming Language

1. Websites: JavaScript is used to bring interactivity and behaviors to a webpage where a webpage responds to actions without loading a new page to request processing. It also enables the visitors to interact with the website and execute the complex actions in the website.

2. Presentations: JavaScript can be used to create presentations using the reveal.js framework if you are familiar with HTML and CSS.

3. Server-Side Applications: With the arrival of Node.js, JavaScript made its way to be used from the client-side to server-side. Since then Node.js is being used by big giants like Walmart as a crucial part of their back-end architecture.

4. Smartwatch Applications: Popular company called Pebble which  is known for making smartwatch applications has created a framework called Pebble.js which can be used by JavaScript developers make smartwatch applications using Pebble.js.

5. Control Robots and Drones: If things like flying drones and playing with Robots interests you then you might be very curious to know that you can fly the drone using a little bit of JavaScript from your web browser. JavaScript and Node.js make it easy to control robots using Bluetooth. There are tons of tutorials discussing how to fly a drone using JavaScript on the web.

6. Games: JavaScript is not only used to create interactive website and Mobile apps but can also be used to create interactive games on the web using  HTML Canvas. Some of the best examples of the games built on JavaScript are Onoff, Everyone’s sky, and Konnekt, etc.

In this tutorial, we have given an introduction to JavaScript programming language.
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But remember to understand the concept very well, you need to practice more.

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