Javascript history
In 1986 David Ungar and Randall B. Smith developed Self at Xerox PARC. Inspired by Java, Scheme and Self Brendan Eich created Javascript in 1995.
1986 - Self and Mocha
in 1986 David Ungar and Randall B. Smith developed Self at Xerox PARC
in 1995 Brendan Eich was hired to develops Mocha for Netscape. He was inspired by Java, Scheme and Self
1991-1996 - Web 1.0
1991: Web 1.0
1995: Microsoft releases MSIE 1.0 with VBScript
1995: Sun buys Netscape and renames Mocha/LiveScript to Javascript for making it the perfect companion for Sun's Java
1996: Microsoft releases MSIE 3.0 with JScript.NET
1996: Netscape's JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey
1996: Javascript starts as ECMA (since 1961) standard
1997-1999 - ECMAScript
1997: Release of ES1
1998: Release of ES2
1999: Release of ES3
2000-2008 - Abandoned ES4
2000: Start of ES4 (never released)
2000: Adobe releases Flash 5 with ActionScript (=ES4 draft)
2000: Open extension JSON emerges as a subset of JavaScript
2004: Web 2.0
2004: Release of E4X extension (ECMAScript for XML)
2005: AJAX and XMLHttpRequest emerge
2006: Release of jQuery
2007: Microsoft releases SilverLight
2008: Microsoft kills 8 years of ES4
2008-2009 - ES3.1 and ES5
2008: Start development of ES3.1 (later named ES5)
2008: Google releases Chrome and V8 JavaScript engine
2009: Release of ES3.1/ES5
2009 - NodeJs
Google announces Golang
Release of NodeJs (using V8 JavaScript engine)
Mozilla releases ServerJS (later renamed to CommonJS)
2010 - NPM, Express and AngularJs
Release of NPM
Release of Express
Release of AngularJs
2011 - EmberJs
Release of NPM v1
Release of EmberJs
2012 - Typescript and Golang
Microsoft releases Typescript v0.8
Google releases Golang
2013 - React
Release of Browserify
Release of ReactJs
2014 - VueJs, Babel and Webpack
Release of VueJs
Release of Babel
Release of Webpack
Release of Google Traceur compiler v0.0.10
NPM grows to over 50.000 modules
- 2015: Release of ES6/ES2015, with all draft ES4 features except types (15 years after ES4 draft)
2015 - RollupJs
Release of RollupJs v0.3.1
Release of NodeJs v4 (v1/v2/v3 do not exist)
2016 - Yarn
Microsoft releases Typescript v2
ES2016 (async/await)
Release of Yarn with workspaces
Release of Node v6
2017 - Parcel
ES2017 (Object.values/Object.entries)
HTTP/2
Chrome 61 with native support for JavaScript modules
Release of Parcel
2018 - Deno announced
Release of Node v8
ES2018 (Promise.finally)
Release of RollupJs v1.0
Release of Node v10/v11 (experimental ESM)
Microsoft releases Typescript v3
Ryan Dahl announces Deno
2019 - Experimental ESM in NodeJs
ES2019 (Array.sort/Array.flat/Array.flatMap)
Release of Node v12/v13 (experimental ESM)
Release of Lerna v1.0 for handling monorepo's
2020 - Deno v1
ES2020
Release of Node v14/v15 (stable ESM in v15)
Microsoft releases Typescript v4
Deno v1
2021 - NPM v7 with workspaces
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