The JavaScript language specification, also known as ECMAScript or ES, is a living document, modified every year in response to evolving needs. While JavaScript started as a scripting language, the ...

New features in ECMAScript 2022 include top-level await, RegExp match indices, new public and private class fields, and more. Let's get started! ECMAScript 2022 (ES13) dropped on June 22, codifying ...

JavaScript could be the most widely used programming language in the world, but for many developers, its modern version looks very different from what they first learned. With the advent of ECMAScript ...

Over 20,000 developers have shared what are their favorite JavaScript features, front-end frameworks and back-end frameworks in a new survey. The figures come from the fourth State of JavaScript ...

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Virtually everyone knows how to bookmark a webpage, unexciting and as commonplace as using a search engine: Firefox and Chrome users know how to “Bookmark this page”, fans of Internet Explorer use ...

Now's the time to start trying to build Chrome extensions, Google says. But some sophisticated Web page features coming with HTML 5 will have to wait longer. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...