I'm just a newbie...my question may seem very kiddish....I had an argument over this topic with my friends.....

Is JavaScript only a client side programming language or is it both a server and client side scripting language???

Both.

The most common use is at the client, in the browser. However, there are also server side technologies such as classic ASP that enable you to program in JavaScript.

In Windows 8 you can even use it to create Windows applications.

Cheers,

Imar

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Hi Avenger,

it sure can be used on the server-side too.

One of the more recent (and hyped) server-side javascript environments is Node.js, "An event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment", see http://nodejs.org.

If you use IIS as application server, you can run it by installing IISnode.

Thanks a lloooott!!!