Task 7.2 JAVASCRIPT

Riya Jain
4 min readJun 25, 2021

Write a blog explaining the usecase of JavaScript in any of your favorite Industries.

JavaScript is one of the popular programming languages. JavaScript was invented by Brendan Eich in 1995, and became an ECMA standard in 1997. ECMA-262 is the official name of the standard. ECMAScript is the official name of the language. Here, I am going to write a blog on introduction of JavaScript and usecase of JavaScript in Microsoft.

What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is the Programming Language for the Web. JavaScript can update and change both HTML and CSS. JavaScript can calculate, manipulate and validate data. JavaScript is a dynamic computer programming language. It is lightweight and most commonly used as a part of web pages, whose implementations allow client-side script to interact with the user and make dynamic pages. It is an interpreted programming language with object-oriented capabilities.

Where is JavaScript Today ?

The ECMAScript Edition 5 standard will be the first update to be released in over four years. JavaScript 2.0 conforms to Edition 5 of the ECMAScript standard, and the difference between the two is extremely minor.

The specification for JavaScript 2.0 can be found on the following site: http://www.ecmascript.org/

Today, Netscape’s JavaScript and Microsoft’s JScript conform to the ECMAScript standard, although both the languages still support the features that are not a part of the standard.

Advantages of JavaScript

The merits of using JavaScript are −

  • Less server interaction − You can validate user input before sending the page off to the server. This saves server traffic, which means less load on your server.
  • Immediate feedback to the visitors − They don’t have to wait for a page reload to see if they have forgotten to enter something.
  • Increased interactivity − You can create interfaces that react when the user hovers over them with a mouse or activates them via the keyboard.
  • Richer interfaces − You can use JavaScript to include such items as drag-and-drop components and sliders to give a Rich Interface to your site visitors.

Uses-

  • Client-side validation.
  • Displaying date and time.
  • To validate the user input before submission of the form.
  • Open and close new windows.
  • To display dialog boxes and pop-up windows.
  • To change the appearance of HTML documents.
  • To create the forms that respond to user input without accessing the server.

JavaScript Frameworks

ReactJS

It is one of the best JavaScript framework and managed by a reputed brand like Facebook. Be its capacity to achieve best results in SEO, have simpler JSX, better Virtual DOM or influential JavaScript library, Reactjs is the developer’s pick to create dynamic and superior web traffic applications.

AngularJS

Angular.js is a trendy open-source front-end development framework which is largely utilized for developing useful dynamic single-page applications on the web.

NodeJS

It is utilized for developing server-side and networking applications with back-end services along with APIs. It is built on Google Chrome’s JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine) as a platform.

Vue.js

It is the top growing popular javascript framework accepted by developers. It is a JS framework which gets a lot of its impressions from ReactJS and AngularJS.

Emberjs

Ember is an open-source framework that enables developers to builds a single page and large-scale applications on the web.

Backbone.js

You can’t ignore Backbone.js when thinking about the best javascript frameworks. Backbone is a lightweight JavaScript library which is a supple framework for having a structured code. It enables developers to build single page web applications and client-side applications that operate in a given web browser. It provides MVP network, which summarizes the data into models, DOM into views and binds.

JavaScript Usecase in MICROSOFT

Okay, so you’re probably not going to find JavaScript powering Windows anytime soon, but Microsoft relies on JavaScript for a whole lot else.

First off, Microsoft needs to work closely with JavaScript to built its Edge web browser. All browsers need to process and execute JavaScript efficiently, so Microsoft has developed and maintains its own JavaScript engine for Edge. Actually, there has been talk of them creating an alternate version of NodeJS with the Edge engine.

Recently, Microsoft has really embraced NodeJS. They thoroughly support Node on the Azure cloud platform. Its one of Azure’s major features, and they’ve integrated Visual Studio support for Node.

Microsoft has also developed a version of Node for Internet Of Things(IoT) applications. NodeJS is great of IoT because it’s light weight and efficient.

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Riya Jain
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