The History of JavaScript: a timeline of programming language evolution over the past 20 years

From the early days of the wild wild web, JavaScript has been there. Its evolved from a simple two week hack into a vibrant ecosystem that is continuously evolving to the modern web.

Join Matt as he walks the timeline of JavaScripts evolution from where it began into what it has become today. If you are new to web development or just getting back into development or coming to web development from a different part of the stack this is for you. Matt will showcase several demo apps that highlight the differences in how web apps used to be built with ES5 and highlight the tools that have changed how they are built for the modern web and ES6. Finally he will show how that same app can be built with Angular, one of the many modern frameworks that helps engineers build responsive and performant web applications.

Talk given by Matt Hippely at the JavaScriptLA meetup.

Thanks to JavaScriptLA for giving us permission to post this talk. freeCodeCamp is not associated with this talk. We're just excited to bring more exposure to to it!

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[AnitShrestha]

A really good brief presentation on JS evolution that many of web developer did it back in the days. Thank you Matt!

[SIAIVIEID]

A perfect example why Angular is simply overengineered.

[yasirkaram]

Lovely with truthful tactical methods to observer pattern

[ryanhamilton]

Great presentaion, thank you so much :)

[jer]

I'm happy the video was released and we get to see it, but my god, who decided to film this pointed right at such a busy door? It was driving me insane with people constantly walking in and out and just standing in the door eating.

[junka]

how do you do those slide transitions?

[Arakon]

I like how the speaker starts out by saying that this video is intended for people who look at modern, framework-based Javascript code and think 'Why can't I just use jQuery, jQuery at least makes sense', then shows us three examples that go from reasonably easy to understand to completely incomprehensible. These front-end frameworks seem to have been built with no thought to entry-level developers, they're just layer upon layer upon layer upon layer of poorly explained complexity intended to solve problems that most developers are never going to encounter. My head hurts right now.

[vostfrguys]

I hate the complexity it adds for nothing ... its already easy to do stuff with nodejs + php mysql, you certainly need other stuffs but the more you add the worse the archetecture is, its over engineered

[ruvalter]

Where can I find the source code for the Angular app?

[MythicEcho]

Can you please give code URL, please...

[luigis.]

how to complicate life and be unhappy devs. You must put the fu**ing .js file in the head, pubblish in FTP and boom. No model, no worker, No package, no binding, no events, no classes, no unit test, no webpack, no redux... no, no and NO. JavaScript is for scripting STOP. When you Need something you write the function and call them. Node is not a web-server, electron is not a desktop language. The entire JavaScript dev community need a vacation. This is not Evolution, this is involution of JavaScript!

[DJxMaster]

This information isn't understood clearly for beginners, you need a certain experience to understand this video.