It wasn't too many years ago when a so-called web developer used JavaScript on the rare occasion when a web form needed client-side validation. Since CSS wasn't as advanced as it is today, or at least it wasn't widely supported, JavaScript was also used in order to create image rollover effects. Not many years ago, the words JavaScript and programmer would not have gone well together.
However, times change and technologies evolve. Today, qualified JavaScript programmers are sought after and compensated very competitively relative to programmers of other programming languages. This is a reflection of how popular and powerful the JavaScript language has become.
As a result, JavaScript is steadily going from being The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (Crockford, Douglas (2001). http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html) to becoming an enterprise-level language, which is used in applications both inside the browser as well as in...