As a language, JavaScript receives more than its fair share of criticism. Its default global variables, prototypical inheritance, and dynamic typing are often considered flaws that can lead to sloppy ...

The programming language JavaScript emerged 25 years ago and has grown to become one of the most important pieces of the web and browser applications we use today. JavaScript is the go-to language for ...

There's now more evidence that Microsoft's language for scaled-up JavaScript, TypeScript, is becoming an essential for developers building for the internet. Developer analyst firm RedMonk last month ...

Nowadays JavaScript has three different keywords to declare a variable — var, let and, const. Each has its own properties and particularities. Let’s start by making a simple comparison table of the ...

A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

The Internet is about to hit its fourth major shift in server architecture. The early days were powered by simple Perl applications. As the dotcom hit, Java application servers running on highend UNIX ...

Here's what beginning and experienced developers need to know about working with JavaScript's array, for loop, forEach, map, reduce, substring, and switch. Research suggests there are seven JavaScript ...

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...

If your Web site features a language with a specific character set, browser support can be tricky. See how you can use JavaScript to make sure browsers will properly display those characters. Recently ...