I’m sure you noticed, but “JS” in the book series title is not an abbre‐ viation for words used to curse about JavaScript, though cursing at the language’s quirks is something we can probably all identify with!
From the earliest days of the Web, JavaScript has been a foundational technology that drives interactive experience around the content we consume. While flickering mouse trails and annoying pop-up prompts may be where JavaScript started, nearly two decades later, the technology and capability of JavaScript has grown many orders of magnitude, and few doubt its importance at the heart of the world’s most widely available software platform: the Web.
