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JS stands for JavaScript. It is a lightweight, cross-platform and interpreted scripting language. It is well-known for the development of web pages, many non-browser environments also use it. JavaScript can be used for Client-side developments as well as Server-side developments. JavaScript contains a standard library of objects, like Array, Date, and Math, and a core set of language elements like operators, control structures, and statements. You can check the Introduction to JavaScript.

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<script type="text/javascript"> 
    // Your javaScript code
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Characteristics of JS:




    

  • Dynamically typed languages: This language can receive different data types over time.
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  • Case Sensitive Format: JavaScript is case sensitive so you have to aware of that.
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  • Light Weight: It is so light weight, and all the browsers are supported by JS.
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  • Handling: Handling events is the main feature of JS, it can easily response on the website when the user tries to perform any operation.
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  • Interpreter Centered: Java Script is built with interpreter centered that allows the user to get the output without the use of the compiler.
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Advantages of JS:


    

  • JavaScript executed on the user’s browsers not on the web server so it saves bandwidth and load on the web server.
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  • The JavaScript language is easy to learn it offers syntax that is close to English language.
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  • In javaScript if you ever need any certain feature then you can write it by yourself and use an add-on like Greasemonkey to implement it on the web page.
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  • It does not require compilation process so no compiler is needed user’s browsers do the task.
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  • JavaScript is easy ti debug, and there are lots of frameworks avialable that you can use and become master on that.
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Disadvantages of JS:


    

  • JavaScript codes are visible to the user so user can place some code into the site that compromises the security of data over the website. That will be security issue.
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  • All browsers interprets JavaScript that is correct but they interprets differently to each other.
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  • It only supports single inheritance, so in few cases may require the object-oriented language characteristic.
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  • A single error in a code can totaly stop the weside’s code rendering in the wensite.
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  • JavaScript stores number as a 64-bit floating-point number but operators operate on 32-bit bitwise operands.
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