Ever wondered why JavaScript is the most used language in all over Github, the most popular language on the StackOverflow and, top technology for software development? Through this blog, I’ll try to justify the hype.

But what is JavaScript?

JavaScript is a high-level programming language, meaning it is close to our common English. Traditionally, JavaScript was built for front-end web development along with HTML and CSS to make web pages interactive. To develop a parallel understanding, HTML can be thought of as the noun, CSS as the adjective and, JavaScript as the verb of a website. Hence, the combination of these three gives a proper structure to a web page. Almost every website uses it for the client-side or the front end behavior of the website. The majority of web browsers, like Google Chrome’s V8 engine, have dedicated JavaScript engines to execute it. Every beautiful website out there is due to JavaScript.When writing web pages and apps, one of the most common things you’ll want to do is manipulate the document structure in some way. This is usually done by using the Document Object Model (DOM). jQuery, a JavaScript library makes this process simpler.

What makes it so appealing?

The success of any programming language depends on the community of the developers, versatility and, portability of the language. To start with, JavaScript is a very user-friendly language, meaning that it has very easy to understand syntax. What gives JavaScript a major boost is the great developer community it has managed to develop over the years. Over 900k members on the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/!!. Most of the other languages do not have even half of the number of members. With such a vast community, it makes the learning process for a developer very easy.

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