Ever since the rise of REST API, JavaScript has risen in popularity among WordPress users and the WordPress developer circles. In this context, developers have started to enhance their JavaScript skills so they can be ready whenever the REST API strikes, and in the words of Mullenweg, a more JavaScript-oriented WordPress will rise.
JavaScript, being a front-end development language, runs on the client side (the user's device) and can be used for different things such as creating visual interactions on the site (through its jQuery library). In simple words, a library is just a code repository that can be used to enhance the functionality of the fundamental language. Libraries rely on shortcuts and functions to build upon the coding language. This is similar to a framework that also works like a sort of an extension of the initial foundation, yet it wouldn't work like an independent library in an isolated system, it would more be paired with these libraries. Short-codes...