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Discussion on: Explain Like I'm Five: What's a standard library?

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Elliot Derhay • Edited

Right, and Node and browser JS have different standard libraries, even though (for example) both Node and Chrome use Google's V8 engine.

There are features, classes, objects and functions that both have. But Node has some specifically for server-side operations (e.g. working with a filesystem and listening for network activity), and JS in a browser has some specific to web (e.g. for the DOM and browser window).

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Andrew Robida

Lol I was trying to keep it simple.

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Elliot Derhay

Yeah, I realized after I posted that that it defeats the purpose of "explain like I'm five". πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ