JavaScript in Simple Terms
JavaScript – alongside HTML and CSS – comprises the core frontend technology of the web. JavaScript enables interactive pages, controls dynamic web content, and is an essential part of web applications. The vast majority of websites employ JavaScript, and major web browsers have dedicated JavaScript engines to execute it.
JavaScript is a scripting language used to create and control dynamic website content. For example, most web components that move, refresh, or change without requiring page reload. Features like animated graphics, dynamic buttons, photo slideshows, text autocomplete suggestions, and interactive forms are a few examples of JavaScript at work.
Despite similarities in syntax and standard libraries, JavaScript and Java are distinct and differ greatly in design. React, Vue, Angular, and Node are just a few JavaScript frameworks that solve today’s web problems, and engineers are constantly creating new solutions that push the power of JavaScript forward.
Untold uses JavaScript and its frameworks every day. Nearly every one of our web projects leverage the utility of JavaScript, whether it’s on the application layer of an enterprise communications tool, an experiential single-page application, or the frontend of our own website.