IMHO today Javascript can help to improve that balance—if used wisely. Said that, I think there is no need to generally minimize Javascript usage today any more to keep that balance.

The reason for this rise can be found in the latest survey of 33,000 developers from 156 countries who use npm, a hugely popular Node.js JavaScript package manager that's traditionally used to ...

Built-in JavaScript objects and functions are ones you'll use all the time. Here's how to use Object, JSON, String, Math, Date, and console in your JavaScript programs.