JavaScript Everywhere
Some love it, some hate it, everybody uses it — JavaScript is present in almost every single website you’ve ever visited. And if you don’t believe me, try surfing the web after disabling JavaScript in your browser — good luck with that, truly.
Nobody can deny the strong influence JavaScript has had in the world wide web, as all major browsers can execute JS, which developers use to add interactivity to web pages and enhance our experience.
JavaScript is no longer being used solely on the client side, but this is not news. Most likely you’ve heard of Node already, which is a run time environment that allows you to run JavaScript outside of a browser.
Deno (by the creator of Node) is another option, meant to be a more secure runtime env with TypeScript support out of the box. But it’s too early to talk about this alternative.
JavaScript is powering the frontend and parts of the backend (thanks to Node) of some of the most used services in the world. To name a few, we can include in this list the likes of Netflix, Paypal, LinkedIn, Uber, eBay, Walmart and even some projects at NASA.
