JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, and animate images, not everything but most of the things on the web are controlled using Javascript.
History of JavaScript
JavaScript was created at Netscape Communications by Brendan Eich in 1995. Netscape and Eich designed JavaScript as a scripting language for use with the company's flagship web browser, Netscape Navigator. Initially known as LiveScript, Netscape changed the name to JavaScript so they could position it as a companion for the Java language, a product of their partner, Sun Microsystems. Apart from some superficial syntactic similarities, though, JavaScript is in no way related to the Java programming language.
Why do we need JavaScript?
Whether you plan to specialize in front-end, back-end, or full-stack development, JavaScript is a crucial programming language for any web developer. Without JavaScript, we wouldn’t have the dynamic and interactive web pages that have become the standard user experience we all know, love, and rely on.
This is what JavaScript Syntax looks like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World<title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write ("<hl>Hello, world</hl>");
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
Features of JAVASCRIPT:
