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JS ↔ Multi-paradigm High-Level Prototypal Inheritance OOP Scripting Language for full stack Web Dev

aka JavaScript, ECMAScript, js

JS Concepts​

broader concept definitions on what JS is & how it works

JS Language​

Syntax & keyword definitions for JS

Lib​

Library Collection of prewritten Code to reuse in App

JS Snippets​

collect useful vanilla-only JS snippets here

TS​

Superset of JS + Static Type System layer

Node.js​

Runtime Environment to execute JS outside Browser

References​

  1. JS Engine ↔ Program to execute JS Source Code, consists of Call Stack, Heap, Callback Queue & Event Loop

  2. TS ↔ Superset of JS + Static Type System layer

  3. JavaScript Runtime ↔ Environ (container) to run JS, consists of JS Engine, JS Library & Platform-specific API

  4. Downlevel ↔ (TS term) to Transpile to older JS version

  5. Electron ↔ JS Framework to build desktop Apps with JS, HTML & CSS, embed in Chromium & Node.js

  6. Strict Mode ↔ opt-in variant of JS with more restrictive Semantic & rules for JS Compiler

  7. lodash ↔ Lib extends JS with useful utility functions

  8. MDN Web Docs ↔ FOSS wiki docs for HTML, CSS, JS & Web API

  9. Layout engine ↔ Browser engine to interpret HTML, CSS & JS, & render pixels to screen

  10. JSDoc ↔ Markup Lang to add inline documentation to JS Source Code

  11. DOM Interface ↔ ObjectInterface to expose portion of DOM API to Programming Language (ie JS)

  12. Dynamic Level ↔ TS Runtime Language Level of JS Source Code & Variables

  13. Node.js ↔ Runtime Environment to execute JS outside Browser

  14. <script> ↔ Script Metadata Content Element to embed code (usually JS)

  15. "declaration": true ↔ to toggle generating .d.ts file from TS & JS files

  16. ES Module ↔ (default) built-in JS module format

  17. npmjs ↔ npm registry Repo to share FOSS JS Lib

  18. TSC ↔ CLI Dev tool to Type-Check/Compile TS to JS

  19. ESBuild ↔ CLI Dev tool to Transpile & Bundle JS, fast efficient Compiler built in Go

  20. Monitor ↔ JS Optimization Compiler component to analyse warm/hot Code & Type

  21. JSX ↔ Syntactic Sugar to mix HTML inside JS, later Transpile to React.createElement()

  22. EC ↔ Environ to run JS, to contain VEST (Variable Environment, Scope Chain & this keyword), to fill task pipline in Call Stack

  23. JS Bundle ↔ single combined JS Code output for Client to run, often Transpile to ES6 for compat

  24. Entity ↔ JS feature live in Memory

  25. agnostic ↔ UI library/framework agnostic, multi-language works with JS/Swift/Kotlin

  26. RegExp ↔ regex Global Object to make Regular Expressions in JS

  27. Flexible ↔ plain JS lib - compat with any UI-framework - not only react-specific

  28. NoScript ↔ FF Ext Firewall for JS per script/site/page basis

  29. JS Compiler ↔ Program to transform JS Code, consists of Baseline Compiler, Optimization Compiler & Monitor

  30. Java ↔ clunky Boilerplate-heavy High-Level General-Purpose OOP Programming Language. inspire name for JS

  31. PostCSS ↔ Dev tool to automate CSS operations through JS Plugins

  32. VS Code ↔ Best FOSS IDE, with extensive plugins, FOSS JS Electron by MS

  33. Zero Deps ↔ of vanilla (JS/Programming Language/Binary) Lib to run out-of-box w/o req external Deps

  34. /src/components/App.js ↔ root JS file to define App FC to import other Components

  35. Prepack ↔ Dev tool to recompile JS Code by AOT for perf

  36. NoScript ↔ (Extension) Firewall to permit JS per site/page

  37. Module ↔ JS file exports Code

  38. Platform API ↔ extra APIs extends JS for specific Runtime Environment

  39. JS Framework ↔ guidelines to design & structure JS Apps

  40. Node.js Runtime ↔ JS Runtime Environ to execute JS outside Browser via JS Engine with C++ Bindings & Thread Pool

  41. JS Library ↔ core "vanilla" JS Lib

  42. .map ↔ file to bridge .js to .ts input file (.TS)

  43. "allow-scripts" ↔ to allow <iframe\> to execute JS

  44. await ↔ JS Keyword to suspend execute JS code portion until Promise Settled & returns result

  45. ECMAScript ↔ (standard) Formal specification for JS, set by ECMA International, evolve by TC39

  46. yaml ↔ 2nd most popular JS parser/stringifier for YAML

  47. js-yaml ↔ most popular JS parser/stringifier for YAML

  48. Client Routing ↔ SPA Routing to nav within Web App w/o page refresh, via Thick Client JS

  49. Babel ↔ Dev tool to Transpile JSX & Polyfill JS

  50. draw.io ↔ FOSS Desktop client built on Electron, JS & Shell - can't view or edit plain SVGs?! - diagrams saved as XML