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HTML, HTTP, and React

Frontend First

CHAPTER

The Importance of JavaScript in Web Applications

The browser basically gives you two forms of user interaction, which is links and forms That's like all the browser understands if you don't write any JavaScript. There is some JavaScript somewhere that has to be doing something in an order for that to work. Do you think apps like Trello and Gmail should be able to be written as web applications right? even Twitter You know liking a tweet without refreshing the page if you Again and again So that I kind of wanted to talk about this because I think maybe I just said it quickly or people haven't really heard this before And so I wouldn't want to be clear about what I was actually saying Which is if you literally have no JavaScript running.

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