The Web Dev Guide by Wishtack
  • The Web Dev Guide by Wishtack
  • HTML
    • HTML Tags
    • HTML Attributes
    • Content Formatting
    • Empty Tags vs Content Tags
    • Some Links
  • ECMAScript
    • Some History
    • Language Properties
    • Single-Threaded thus Asynchronous
    • The Event Loop
    • Classes
    • Hoisting is Dead: var vs. let vs. const
    • this & "binding"
    • Arrow Functions
    • Template Strings
    • Syntactic Sugar
      • Spread
      • Destructuring
      • Rest
      • Object Literal Property Value Shorthand
    • Named Parameters
    • Compatibility
  • Tools
    • Node.js
    • NPM
    • Yarn
    • Webpack
    • WebStorm
    • StackBlitz
  • DOM
    • What Is It?
    • Element Selection
    • Element Modification
    • Events
  • Forms
    • The <form> tag
    • Form elements
    • Form validation
  • Networking
    • Fetch Web API
  • CSS
    • Selectors
    • Transforms
    • Transitions
    • Animations
    • Web Animations API
    • Sass
  • Responsive Web Design
    • Viewport
    • Media Queries
    • Grid Layout
    • Flex Layout
    • Frameworks & Libraries
  • Web APIs
  • Testing
    • Unit Testing
    • End to End Testing
  • Security
    • Injection
    • DOM XSS
    • Insecure Direct Object Reference
    • Cross-Site Request Forgery
    • Client vs API Validation
    • API Unauthorized Access and Data Leak
  • More Links
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  1. ECMAScript

Some History

  • 1995 : Netscape creates a dynamic programming language named JavaScript that runs in the browser.

  • 1995 : Netscape enables backend JavaScript development with Netscape Enterprise Server.

  • 1997 : New cross-browser & cross-platform standard named ECMAScript and based on JavaScript.

  • 1998 : ECMAScript 2.

  • 1999 : ECMAScript 3.

  • 2009 : ECMAScript 5 (a.k.a. ECMAScript 3.1).

  • 2009 : NodeJS.

  • June 2011 : ECMAScript 5.1.

  • June 2015 : ECMAScript 6 or ES2015.

  • June 2016 : ECMAScript 7 or ES2016.

  • June 2017 : ECMAScript 8 or ES2017.

  • June 2018 : ECMAScript 9 or ES2018.

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