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What is JavaScript? A Practical Definition

2026-07-283 min read

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What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is a dynamically-typed scripting language that runs natively in every web browser, making it the language of client-side interactivity on the web. It has also become widely used on servers (via Node.js), in mobile apps, and even for CLI tools, largely because of its single-language reach across the whole stack.

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document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click", handler) wires up a click event.

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