JavaScript is a wildly popular interpreted scripting language that was the most in-demand language of 2023, with 29% of job offers requiring programming experience with JavaScript or TypeScript. There are various reasons for JavaScript’s success, starting from the fact that it’s an open standard, not controlled by any single vendor, with numerous implementations and a syntax that is easy to learn.
Just about anything interactive or animated on a webpage today is rendered in JavaScript. Thanks to server-side frameworks such as Node.js, Deno, and bun, the language also extends beyond the browser. It is used to write code for anything from clients to servers to cloud-based applications.
