The language all browsers converted to as of 2019, and therefore the easiest one to distribute and most widely implemented programming language.
Hopefully will be killed by WebAssembly one day.
Because JavaScript is a relatively crap/ad-hoc language, it ended up some decent tooling to make up for that, e.g. stuff like linting via ESLint and reformatting through Prettier is much more widespread than in other languages.
JavaScript data structure are also quite a bit anemic, which makes libraries such as lodash incredibly popular. But most of that stuff should be in the stdlib.
Cheat:
- web-cheat/js-image-load.html: load an image from JavaScript dynamically: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/226847/what-is-the-best-javascript-code-to-create-an-img-element
- web-cheat/js-image-load-viewport.html: load an image from JavaScript dynamically when it would become visible on the viewport: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2321907/how-do-you-make-images-load-only-when-they-are-in-the-viewport
- web-cheat/image-load-lazy.html: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2321907/how-do-you-make-images-load-lazily-only-when-they-are-in-the-viewport/57389607#57389607
- web-cheat/esm.html: ESM modules
- web-cheat/keydown.html
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