Welcome to JavaScript

A great thing about programming with JavaScript is that most, if not all, of the tools you’ll need are completely free. That’s particularly reassuring, as you’ll want a lot of the following items in order to develop using JavaScript in a productive and reliable way. Chapter 3, Tools of the Trade, goes into the following categories in much more detail.

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BROWSERSPresumably, you already have at least one Web browser, but you’ll want several. All the key modern browsers are free and should be used: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and even Internet Explorer.

TEXT EDITORTo write JavaScript code, you can use almost any text editor, ...

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