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1
History
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1.1
Creation at Netscape
1.2
Adoption by Microsoft
1.3
The rise of JScript
1.4
Growth and standardization
1.5
Reaching maturity
2
Trademark
3
Website client-side usage
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3.1
Examples of scripted behavior
3.2
Libraries and frameworks
4
Other usage
5
Execution
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5.1
JavaScript engine
5.2
Runtime system
6
Features
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6.1
Imperative and structured
6.2
Weakly typed
6.3
Dynamic
6.3.1
Typing
6.3.2
Run-time evaluation
6.4
Object-orientation (prototype-based)
6.4.1
Prototypes
6.4.2
Functions as object constructors
6.4.3
Functions as methods
6.5
Functional
6.5.1
Lexical closure
6.5.2
Anonymous function
6.6
Delegative
6.6.1
Functions as roles (Traits and Mixins)
6.6.2
Object composition and inheritance
6.7
Miscellaneous
6.7.1
Zero-based numbering
6.7.2
Variadic functions
6.7.3
Array and object literals
6.7.4
Regular expressions
6.7.5
Promises and Async/await
6.7.5.1
Promises
6.7.5.2
Async/await
6.8
Vendor-specific extensions
7
Syntax
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7.1
Simple examples
7.2
More advanced example
8
Security
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8.1
Cross-site scripting
8.2
Cross-site request forgery
8.3
Misplaced trust in the client
8.4
Misplaced trust in developers
8.5
Browser and plugin coding errors
8.6
Sandbox implementation errors
8.7
Hardware vulnerabilities
9
Development tools
10
Related technologies
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10.1
Java
10.2
JSON
10.3
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