Development and production environments
It does not matter in terms of programming style what type of environment the application is being developed in and will be deployed in. But it does matter to the libraries a lot.
Browsers
The majority of JavaScript applications are designed to run on the client side, that is, in the client's browser. Browser-based environments are excellent for development because browsers are ubiquitous, you can work on the code right on your local machine, the interpreter is the browser's JavaScript engine, and all browsers have a developer console. Firefox's FireBug provides very useful error messages and allows for break-points and more, but it's often helpful to run the same code in Chrome and Safari to cross-reference ...
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