Chapter 8. Universal JavaScript for Web Applications
JavaScript was born in 1995 with the original goal of giving web developers the power to execute code directly in the browser and build more dynamic and interactive websites.
Since then, JavaScript has grown up a lot and it is today one of the most famous and widespread languages in the world. If, at the very beginning, JavaScript was a very simple and limited language, today it can be considered a complete general purpose language that can be used even outside the browser to build almost any kind of application. In fact, JavaScript now powers frontend applications, web servers, and mobile applications, as well as embedded devices such as wearable devices, thermostats, and flying drones.
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