JavaScript: The Verb That Brings Web Development To Life
JavaScript is a building block of the web, like a verb in a sentence. It makes websites dynamic & interactive. You can have static sites without JavaScript, but it's like a sentence with no verbs - nothing happens!
I was asked recently on a livestream about people being against JavaScript on the web. I think it’s a hot take that… doesn’t actually exist. JavaScript is one of the building blocks of the web. The metaphor I like to use is that web development is like a sentence. When you read a sentence, there’s nouns, adjectives, and verbs (and other things, sure, but let’s stick with this for now). In web development, HTML is the noun, CSS is the adjective that describes the noun, and JavaScript is the verb that makes it do something. You can have websites without JavaScript, of course. They’re static and...