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The technologies used to create products for the Web have evolved rapidly in recent years. JavaScript, the predominant language of the Web, is present today in 97% of modern websites. More interestingly, every Fortune 500 company uses JavaScript — specifically, npm, the JavaScript package ecosystem built by millions of developers globally.
After Node.js environment was released in 2009, the JavaScript open source community really came to life, creating pieces of reusable code (usually called modules or packages) that could be shared by different projects. As this ecosystem evolved, we saw the emergence of full-featured front-end libraries and frameworks that greatly increased development speed. Not only for creating web apps, but also for mobile and desktop apps, all relying on modern JavaScript.
