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JavaScript

Posted by Johan Rönkkö
Johan Rönkkö
28,054 Points

Are javascript growing or fading?

In terms of interaktion on the web, are javascript growing or will CSS eventually take over?

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Javascript is maturing. It's role is changing. Which I think is going to lead to a large amount of growth and demand. Javascript use to just do stuff on the client. CSS3 came along, and allowed us to "do" a lot more stuff, better, faster, more reliably than javascript could. We no longer needed to manipulate absolute positioned divs since we have flexbox, we no longer needed to rely on javascript to animate or move an object, we have css transitions now.

But we also now have frameworks, and all kind of ways to run javascript on the server, making it do stuff like interacting with databases, live updating sites easily, etc.

Per Karlsson
Per Karlsson
12,683 Points
Per Karlsson
Per Karlsson
12,683 Points

According to the TIOBE index as of January 2016, it has declined a little bit.

But considering things like node.js I'd say it'll probably grow a bit more. But I might be wrong.