JavaScript or simple JS is the standard for web frontend development and therefore one of the most important scripting languages today. It was founded at Netscape labs in 1995. Netscape as ruling web browser these days had the freedom to shape the future of the web frontend. Among other script languages like Perl or python they had decided for their new developed Mocha which was the predecessor of JS. Mocha was syntax like to Java, which was the upcoming star at the Programming heaven in the nineties. Later on, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, the owner of Java, formed an agreement regarding the naming.
That's it, 2 different languages from scratch, JavaScript a script language Object based and designed as language for amateurs and front end developer, from the syntax somehow aligned with Java, however still very different in component naming object structure etc.. Java on the other hand a very complex, powerful full featured and Object-Oriented Programming language like e.g. C++. Somehow surprisingly, but a confusing of these two languages is regular made, even by experienced IT professionals.
Java Script is today not only used in Frontend development, it has also made it's way in the Webserver backend and even to a server based script language like Perl or PowerShell mostly through NodeJS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js). There are countless implementations of JavaScript as function extension in various application products. There are even Java program code wrappers available to integrate Java code in JS what makes the confusion perfect :)
Read more about JS at mozilla.org https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
sofision brings strong experiences in JS development in front end dynamization as well as for various backend tasks. The following are our main skills regarding JS.
- JQuery https://jquery.com/
- JQueryUI https://jqueryui.com/
- JQGrid
- IBM JSEngine
- MongoDB https://www.mongodb.com
- NodeJS https://nodejs.org
