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Chapter 1 - Introduction to Javascript on which ReactJS library is built

If you want to learn ReactJS from scratch, you need to go one level beyond to have full knowledge of Javascript, on which the libraries like ReactJS, VueJS, Full framework AngularJS are built on. So lets deep dive, what is Javascript and how it was built and what was its usage and how it has changed the web pages that we are viewing in our browsers. History of Javascript You all know, to access a webpage (www.google.com), you need a browser. In 1993, a browser was released named "Mosaic" which was used to show the static pages without any dynamic behavior. Then in 1994, came a updated version "Netscape Navigator" which was developed by lead developers of Mosaic under the Netscape Corporation. At time, this browser Netscape Navigator had become quite popular. Still this time also, Javascript was still not born. Then in 1995, Netscape decided to add scripting, so that web pages can become dynamic. For this, they collaborated with Sun Microsystem, which brings the Fath...