Explained: JavaScript for Web Development

JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used to make web pages interactive (e.g., animations, clickable buttons, pop-up menus, etc.) – Savio Martin

Introduction to JavaScript ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language. Wide range of features and easy to learn makes it popular. Here is a detailed explanation of JavaScript for Web Development ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡๏ธ
1. What is JavaScript? JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language used to make web pages interactive (e.g., animations, clickable buttons, pop-up menus, etc.). { 1 / 10 }
2. Why using JavaScript? HTML content can be made interactive by JavaScript. Both client-side and server-side development are possible with JavaScript. JavaScript has a standard library of objects, such as Array, Date, Math, and many more. { 2 / 10 }
3. Why learning JavaScript? – Powerful enough to handle everything – A lot of job opportunities – Easy to learn and build – Huge community – Well maintained { 3 / 10 }
4. Features of JavaScript – All popular web browsers support JavaScript – JavaScript is a single threaded language – JavaScript is an object-oriented programming language – It is a case-sensitive language. – It is used everywhere { 4 / 10 }
6. How to add JavaScript code? There are 3 ways to add JavaScript to your html web app – Between the body tag of html – Between the head tag of html – In .js file externally (preferred way) { 6 / 10 }
9. Advantages of External JavaScript – It helps in better reusability and readability – It reduces page loading time since web browsers cache external js files. – The code length is reduced since only the location of the js file needs to be specified. { 9 / 10 }
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