Can I install Javascript on my laptop?

Luiggi Trejo
1 min readDec 31, 2022
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No.

Or, better said, you don't need to install Javascript on your laptop.

JavaScript is a programming language that is commonly used to create interactive web pages and is supported by most modern web browsers. To use JavaScript in your web pages, you do not need to install it on your computer. Instead, you can include the JavaScript code in your HTML files and access it from the web browser.

Here is an example of how you can include JavaScript in an HTML file:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
// JavaScript code goes here
</script>
</body>
</html>

Alternatively, you can also include JavaScript code in a separate file with a .js extension and then include it in your HTML file using the <script> tag with the src attribute, like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
<script src="myScript.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

If you want to use JavaScript to create web applications or to run JavaScript code outside of a web browser, you can use a runtime environment such as Node.js. To install Node.js, you can visit the Node.js website (https://nodejs.org/) and download the installer for your operating system. Follow the instructions in the installer to complete the installation.

Stay tuned!

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