JavaScript is an interpretted multi-paradigm programming language, best known as the scripting language of the web (although it also runs in non-browser environments nowadays, e.g. Node.js). The standard for JavaScript is ECMAScript, which has incorporated many new language constructs in recent versions.

Modern JavaScript

• features introduced in ES2015 (aka ES6) - see workshop slides
• functional programming principles (declarative, immutable, pure)
• TypeScript

Node & NPM

• Node.js is a JavaScript runtime
• NPM is the Node package manager