---
title: "A Brief History of JavaScript"
description: "We take a look at the evolution of JavaScript, arguably one of the most important languages of today, and tomorrow"
authors:
  - name: "Sebastian Peyrott"
    url: "https://auth0.com/blog/authors/sebastian-peyrott/"
date: "Jan 16, 2017"
category: "Developers,Deep Dive,JavaScript"
tags: ["javascript", "history", "ecmascript", "mocha", "livescript"]
url: "https://auth0.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript/"
---

# A Brief History of JavaScript

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