Chapter 1. The Modern Web
How the Web Has Changed
Prior to about 2010, putting too much JavaScript™ in an application was considered bad practice. Today JavaScript is the primary programming language of the web. To understand this radical shift, let’s look back in time. Around the year 2000, enterprise development began to shift from a client/server-centric approach to a web-centric approach. The World Wide Web began to take off, and change was in the air. Business models changed as the end user (the customer) gained the capability to interact with companies through a browser. Developers began trading in Java applets, Visual Basic®, and PowerBuilder for tools that built web applications.
In the early days of web application development, browser ...
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