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Developers come to the world of web app development via many paths and are not always grounded in the basic technologies that web apps rely on. In this chapter, I introduce the basic features of JavaScript and TypeScript. This is not a comprehensive guide to either language, but it addresses the essentials, and it will give you the knowledge you need to get started.