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The benefits and features of Javascript - Node.js Tutorial
From the course: Learning Node.js
The benefits and features of Javascript
- [Instructor] Let's summarize some of the benefits and features of JavaScript. With Node, we get access to sharing the language between the back end and the front end, and as well, sharing the code between the back end and the front end. Another difference, and one that I like, is that JavaScript is a dynamic language, meaning the type is determined by value, not when the variable is declared. It is loosely typed versus strongly typed. Another nice benefit is that JSON comes naturally to JavaScript, which makes it ideal for web apps both on the front end and back end. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, and it's based on a subset of the JavaScript language. A good example is passing data from our back end to our front end. In other environments with different languages, you would have to do some sort of conversion. With JavaScript it's much easier. Overall, JavaScript has many pros, but these can be seen as cons depending on the circumstance. JavaScript is definitely not the…
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