Tech Glossary
JavaScript Terms That Make Sense to Real People
JavaScript is the language that makes websites actually do things. If you have ever clicked a button and something happened on the page without it reloading — that was probably JavaScript. Here is what you need to know, in plain language.
JavaScript
The coding language that makes websites interactive.
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The live structure of a web page that JavaScript can change.
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A structured toolkit that makes building web apps faster and easier.
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Code that waits for something to happen and then responds.
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A reusable block of code that does something specific.
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