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JavaScript for interactivity

JavaScript for interactivity

From the course: Succeeding in Web Development: Full Stack and Front End

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JavaScript for interactivity

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- Everyone who works in the world of web development has to be comfortable with a certain amount of programming. For web development that means learning about JavaScript, the language responsible for managing interaction within a browser. It's not just front end developers, 50% of back end developers say they use some form of JavaScript daily. JavaScript interacts with the DOM handling events, loading and unloading media and creating, modifying and deleting elements in a page. Now this is a job for someone who appreciates creating and designing interactions with content. There have been several revisions to the language with a new version always on the horizon. Developers also have to worry about browser support issues because the language has matured rapidly and browsers don't always keep up with the latest improvements. To take care of this, most developers use something called a transpiler, which will convert code written…

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