Preface
Since its origins more than 20 years ago, JavaScript has evolved from a basic language designed to enhance web pages by adding some interactivity to them, to a full language that has been used to develop quite large, modern websites of very high complexity, with highly interactive behaviors and fast response times, that successfully challenge classic desktop applications. Not only has JavaScript become the tool for web development, it has also occupied a place in server development, starting to edge out more conventional languages and frameworks such as PHP, Java, and .NET, since developers can also use their JavaScript knowledge when working with Node. Finally, two other areas, mobile application and desktop program development, ...
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