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    JavaScript

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    1. 1. Documentation
    2. 2. Introductory articles
    3. 3. Other
    4. 4. Advanced resources
    5. 5. Tools
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    A re-introduction to JavaScript

    JavaScript (sometimes shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or MongoDB.

    The JavaScript standard is ECMAScript. As of 2012, all modern browsers fully support ECMAScript 5.1. Older browsers support at least ECMAScript 3. A 6th major revision of the standard is being worked on. Progress of different new features can be followed on the dedicated wiki.

    This section of the site is dedicated to the JavaScript language itself, the parts that are not specific to Web pages or other host environments. For information about APIs specific to Web pages, please see DOM. Read more about how DOM and JavaScript fit together in the DOM Reference.

    Documentation

    JavaScript Reference
    This JavaScript reference includes complete documentation for JavaScript 1.5 and updates.
    JavaScript Guide
    Our primary guide about how to program with JavaScript.

    Introductory articles

    JavaScript technologies overview
    Introduction to the web browser JavaScript landscape
    JavaScript data structures
    Overview of available data structures in JavaScript
    Inheritance and the prototype chain
    Explanation of the widely misunderstood and under-estimated prototype-based inheritance

    Other

    Canvas tutorial
    <canvas> is the HTML5 element which can be used to draw graphics using scripting. It can for instance be used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple (and not so simple) animations.
    JavaScript Language Resources
    A description of the JavaScript language standards.
    Internet Explorer Standards Support Documents
    Microsoft publishes documents that describe "variations, clarifications, and extensions to certain final approved web standards supported by Internet Explorer." Of these the ones that related to JavaScript are:

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    Advanced resources

    Idiomatic.js
    Principles of Writing Consistent, Idiomatic JavaScript
    Memory Management in JavaScript
    Overview of how memory management works in JavaScript

    Tools

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    Other resources

    JavaScript Garden
    A site with helpful information about the more esoteric parts of JavaScript.
    JSWiki
    A Github-based wiki that indexes libraries and resources

    JavaScript is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle in the U.S. and other countries.

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