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JavaScript Introduction!

[1] JavaScript Basics to Advanced Series: What is JavaScript? | Why & Where to use JavaScript?

Ankit Maheshwari
3 min readSep 5, 2024

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What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is most popular and widely used programming language in the world. It’s growing faster than any other programming languages.

● Big companies like Netflix, Walmart and PayPal uses JavaScript to build applications.

● Average salary of JavaScript developer is approx $72,000/year in the United States.

● Using JavaScript we can work as a Front-end developer, Back-end developer or a Full-stack developer (who knows the Front-end and Back-end) .

What can we do with JavaScript?

For a long time JavaScript was only used in browsers to build interactive web pages. But these days we can build:

● Web/Mobile Applications

● Realtime Networking Apps like chats, video streaming services.

● Command-line tools

● Games development etc. using JavaScript.

Where does JavaScript code run?

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Ankit Maheshwari
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