JavaScript Fundamentals
Hello, world! This part of the tutorial is about core JavaScript, the language itself. Later on, you’ll learn about Node.js and other platforms that use it. But we need a working environment to run our scripts and, since this book is online, the browser is a good choice. We’ll keep the amount of browser-specific commands (like alert ) to a minimum so that you don’t spend time on them if you plan to concentrate on another environment (like Node.js). We’ll focus on JavaScript in the browser in the next part of the tutorial. So first, let’s see how we attach a script to a webpage. For server-side environments (like Node.js), you can execute the script with a command like "node my.js" . The “script” tag JavaScript programs can be inserted into any part of an HTML document with the help of the <script> tag. For instance: <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <body> <p>Before the script...</p> <script&g