English word senses marked with topical category "JavaScript"
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Total 21 word senses
- Ajax (Proper name) An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
- Atwood's Law (Proper name) A tongue-in-cheek "law" of software development stating that "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."
- ECMAScript (Proper name) A standardised specification of JavaScript, developed by Ecma International.
- ES (Proper name) Initialism of ECMAScript.
- JS (Proper name) Initialism of JavaScript.
- JSON (Proper name) Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation, a data format used to represent structured data. It is based on JavaScript syntax.
- JScript (Proper name) A dialect of JavaScript developed by Microsoft.
- JavaScript (Proper name) A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to webpages.
- JavaScripted (Adjective) Implemented in the JavaScript programming language.
- JavaScripter (Noun) One who uses the JavaScript programming language.
- JavaScripting (Noun) Programming in the JavaScript programming language.
- Javascript (Proper name) Nonstandard form of JavaScript.
- LiveScript (Proper name) The name originally proposed for JavaScript.
- TDZ (Noun) Initialism of temporal dead zone.
- TypeScript (Proper name) A scripting programming language that is a strongly-typed superset of JavaScript.
- WinJS (Proper name) Initialism of Windows Library for JavaScript (an open source JavaScript library developed by Microsoft)
- barrel file (Noun) A JavaScript or TypeScript module which does nothing except import various files and then export them together, for the convenience of other developers who only need to know about and work with that single barrel file.
- callback hell (Noun) (mostly of the JavaScript language) The situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, potentially making it difficult to understand and maintain the code.
- hoisting (Noun) The behaviour of JavaScript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.
- nullish (Adjective) Either being undefined or having a null value.
- temporal dead zone (Noun) In JavaScript, the lines of code preceding the declaration of a variable.
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