Tag: Scripts
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Developer Central JavaScript
The Journey of JavaScript From Downloading Scripts to Execution – Part III
In this article, you'll learn how JavaScript is executed in the browser. JavaScript is designed to be operated as a single-threaded language, yet we can execute asynchronous JavaScript code in the browser without blocking the main thread. This article aims to provide a detailed explanation of the underlying tools used by the browser to execute JavaScript code.June 18, 2019 -
Developer Central JavaScript
The Journey of JavaScript: from Downloading Scripts to Execution - Part II
In this article, you'll learn how JavaScript engines have evolved from a mere interpreter to a performant and efficient engine that produces highly optimized machine code, starting with the underlying components in the V8 JavaScript engine and including performance optimization techniques.May 23, 2019 -
Developer Central JavaScript
The Journey of JavaScript: from Downloading Scripts to Execution - Part I
This article will help you understand the internals of JavaScript - even the weird parts. Every line of code that you write in JavaScript will make complete sense once you know how it has been interpreted by the underlying engine. You'll learn multiple ways of downloading scripts based on the use case, and how the parser generates an Abstract Syntax Tree and its heuristics while parsing the code. Let's dive deep into the internals of JavaScript engines - starting from downloading scripts.February 24, 2019 -
.NET JavaScript Mobile
Why Is Your Web Page Not Behaving as Expected – Troubleshooting Web Page Scripts
In my last blog post of this series I covered the element inspector and network resources tab of modern day web browsers’ developer tools. Although there is a large set of what I like to call “modern” web browsers out there I decided to only take a look at three of them; Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 9. Today I want to continue this series and cover another useful aspect of web development tools – the Scripts tab. This tab not only allows you to inspect all of the JavaScript that has been downloaded to the client, it also allows you to...August 22, 2012
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