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title: "What are the features of JavaScript?"  
description: "What are the features of JavaScript?"  
author: "Rahul Roi"  
published: 2019-04-04  
updated: 2020-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23487/what-are-the-features-of-javascript  
category: "javascript"  
tags: ["javascript"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What are the features of JavaScript?

Following are the features of JavaScript:

- This is a lightweight, interpreted programming language.
- This is designed for creating network-centric applications.
- This is complementary to and integrated with Java.
- This is an open and cross-platform scripting language.

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## Answers

### Answer by Ethan Karla

#### Explain :- What JavaScript can do?

#### Basics

- The JavaScript can add new HTML to the page, change the existing content, modify styles.
- The JavaScript React to user actions, run on mouse clicks, pointer movements, key presses.
- It is send the requests over the network to remote servers, which are called APIs.
- Its allow to Get and set cookies, ask questions to the visitor, show messages.
- Its provide a littlie-memory feature to Remember the data on the client-side(store data in the browser’s local storage).

Whenever you visit some websites and a popup appears from nowhere asking to subscribe to the website. JavaScript is at work.

#### Advance

- The JavaScript used to create server APIs.
- The JavaScript used to interact with the database.
- We can make cross-platform mobile apps(both IOS/Android) in JavaScript.
- The JavaScript used to make desktop applications as well as a gaming platform.

### Answer by Rahul Roi

Following are the features of JavaScript:

- This is a lightweight, interpreted programming language.
- This is designed for creating network-centric applications.
- This is complementary to and integrated with Java.
- This is an open and cross-platform scripting language.

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