JavaScript

JavaScript (JS) is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Created by Brendan Eich in 1995, it is maintained by Ecma International's TC39 technical committee, with related Web APIs maintained by W3C and WHATWG. As of 2025, JavaScript is the most widely used programming language on GitHub., however, TypeScript, which is a version of JavaScript that is strict about types and is statically typed, overtook JavaScript on Github by August 2025. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1995
Designed by: Sun Microsystems
Named after: Java
File extensions: js, mjs

Wikidata: Q2005

Influenced: ActionScript • asm.js • Ballerina • BeanShell • Chaos • CoffeeScript • Curl • Dart • FJAX • Gleam • Google Apps Script • JS++ • Kinetic Rule Language • Kotlin • LiveScript • Monkey X • Pascal Script • PHP • QML • TypeScript • Zig

Influenced by: AWK • C • HyperTalk • Java • LiveScript • Lua • Perl • Python • Scheme • Self

Programming paradigms: functional programming • generic programming • aspect-oriented programming • prototype-based programming • event-driven programming • imperative programming

Language types: prototype-based programming language • multi-paradigm programming language • imperative programming language • high-level programming language • functional programming language • scripting language • event-driven programming language • strict programming language • interpreted language

JavaScript Influence Network

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Hello World in JavaScript

console.log("Hello World");

Free JavaScript books, articles, documentation

AngularJS

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Backbone.js

Booty5.js

D3.js

Dojo

Electron

Elm

Ember.js

Express.js

Fastify

Hydrogen

Ionic

jQuery

Meteor

Next.js

Node.js

Nuxt.js

Om

React

React Native

Redux

Svelte

Vue.js

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Latest data update: 2026-08-04