Brief History of JavaScript Narrated by JS Specialists

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JavaScript is being around for more than two
decades and is considered one of the most popular
programming languages for creating interactive
single page applications. But in the first ten
years since its inception in May 1995 it was one
of the most disparaged languages. Let us take
some to dive into its brief overview of
JavaScripts history.
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Overview Of JS History

• JavaScript was written in only 10 days by an
  engineer at Netscape known as Brendan Eich under
  the name Mocha.
• It was then named as LiveScriptin next beta
  release of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September
  1995.

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Overview Of JS History

• After that, in a marketing ploy to leverage the
  popularity of Sun Microsystem's Java language, it
  was released as JavaScript with Netscape
  Navigator 2.0 beta 3 in December 1995. In spite
  of having very little in common with Java this
  misnomer have been a source of confusion since
  then.

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Big breakthrough

• In its early years, being considered as the
  choicest language of amateurs, it was denigrated
  by professional web development specialists. In
  the year 2004 a major breakthrough was achieved
  by this highly underrated programming language
  when a web application, popular as Gmail, was
  launched that first revealed to the world the
  potential of this client-side language.

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Big breakthrough

• While its competitors like Hotmail and Yahoo!
  Mail that used server-side rendering featured
  very slow interfaces, Gmail could immediately
  respond to user interactions.

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Other Milestones

• In 2005, Google transformed online maps into an
  interactive experience by launching Google Maps
  which utilized Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and
  XML) in which JavaScript was the foundation.
• With Ajax JavaScript experts could create web
  applications wherein data was loaded in the
  background without requiring full page refreshes.

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Other Milestones

• Google launched Chrome browser in 2008 with a
  faster JavaScript engine, V8, to support web
  applications that was not possible for its
  contemporary browsers.

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Other Milestones

• In 2010, Twitter made a major breakthrough in
  JavaScript was introducing a new architecture
  wherein both server-side and client-side code
  were entirely built in JavaScript but it resulted
  in some performance issues. Twitter addressed
  those issues in 2012 with a revised architecture
  that used server-side rendering and minimized
  client-side JavaScript consequently reducing page
  load time by 80.

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Other Milestones

• In 2013, Airbnb provided the technological world
  the concept of entirely reusable rendering system
  by introducing Node.js framework which can be
  equally executed on client-side as well as
  server-side.

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