A Brief History of JavaScript: This year, JavaScript turns 30
1994: Netscape releases Netscape Navigator 1.0 1995: Brendan Eich creates the very first version of JavaScript 1996: Microsoft introduces JScript in Internet Explorer 3 to compete with Netscape Navigator 1996: Netscape Navigator 2.0 is released with JavaScript 1.0 1997: Netscape submits JavaScript to ECMA International 1998: Official release of the first ECMAScript language specification (ECMAScript 2) 1999: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 5, which uses more proprietary technology than before. 2001: The first JSON message is sent 2002: JSLint, the “grandfather of all JavaScript syntax checkers” is introduced 2003: Apple introduces Safari and WebKit 2004: A beta version of Gmail is released, which uses a new asynchronous JavaScript protocol, “AJAX” 2006: John Resig creates first commit to a project named jQuery 2007: The first Apple iPhone is released with its mobile safari not supporting Flash 2008: Netscape Navigator is sunset, marking the end of the “First Browser War” 2008: Douglas Crockford publishes “JavaScript: The Good Parts” 2008: Google releases the Chrome browser, the fastest web browser at the time, and with it, the V8 engine. 2009: Ryan Dahl begins work on Node.js 2009: The first commit on Express.js is created 2010: npm 1.0 is released 2010: WebStorm 1.0, a new JavaScript IDE by JetBrains, is released 2010: AngularJS and Backbone.js are released 2012: Webpack, a module bundler, is introduced 2012: Microsoft makes TypeScript 0.8 available for the public 2013: Facebook releases React 2014: Vue.js is released 2014: The first commit to Babel.js is created 2014: Amazon announces AWS Lambda, powered by Node.js 2015: GraphQL, a query language for APIs, is launched 2015: Redux is released 2015: Web assembly is released 2015: ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) is released 2016: Microsoft releases VSCode 1.0, a lightweight, fast, cross-platform IDE 2016: Angular (Angular2) is released 2016: Next.js 1.0 is released 2017: Prettier 1.0 is released 2017: Facebook launches Yarn, a new package manager 2018: TensorFlow.js is released, bringing machine learning to the browser via WebGL or WebGPU without needing compute 2019: Node.js stabilizes support for ECMAScript modules in v13.2.0 2020: JavaScript makes it into space with SpaceX Dragon 2020: Deno 1.0 is released 2022: Internet Explorer 11 is retired 2023: Bun 1.0 is released 2025: TypeScript will be ported to Go➖➖➖➖➖➖
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