Universal JavaScript for Web Applications
JavaScript was born with the goal of giving web developers the power to execute code directly on the browser and build dynamic and interactive websites.
Since its inception, JavaScript has grown up a lot. 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.
The language's availability across platforms and devices is fostering a new trend among JavaScript developers: being able to simplify code reuse across different environments in the same project. With Node.js, developers have the opportunity to build web applications where it is easy to share code between the server (backend...