A BRIEF HISTORY OF JAVASCRIPT

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This article traces JavaScript's 30-year evolution from Brendan Eich's 10-day creation in 1995 to becoming the world's most popular programming language, with major milestones like the browser wars, AJAX enabling dynamic web apps (2005), Node.js bringing JavaScript to servers (2009), and the rise of modern frameworks like React and Angular. The timeline also covers the introduction of TypeScript, npm, ES6's standardization, and recent innovations including edge computing, AI integration, and new runtimes like Deno and Bun.