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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.

by Ankita Masand

June 18, 2019 Share
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.

by Ankita Masand

May 23, 2019 Share
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.

by Ankita Masand

February 24, 2019 Share
.NET Mobile JavaScript
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...

by Carl Bergenhem

August 22, 2012 Share

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