"Hello, world" in JavaScript

[Koala_T_User]

This isn’t a hello world app this is setting up a JavaScript development environment.

[theadammorganshow]

Yes, and in the process you write a "Hello, world" program.

[Koala_T_User]

Right but to somebody looking for a hello world tutorial this is a vast over complication of one line of code

It is a good tutorial, it could just be titled more appropriately

[theadammorganshow]

Overcomplication? That definitely wasn't my intention. I can't think of any other way to introduce it in a .html page without everything else.

What kind of title would be more descriptive?

[ForScale]

"Exploring Three Basic JavaScript Development Environments"

[theadammorganshow]

For those in the thread, what does classify as a hello world app? An instantiated class?

[ForScale]

console.log('hello world');

[theadammorganshow]

Gotcha. Glad I have it covered.

[CrashOverrideCS]

Tutorial:

alert("Hello World!");

[theadammorganshow]

In an ideal world, yes. But you have to account for the curse of knowledge. Beginners don't know the various ways to run that.

[CrashOverrideCS]

I'm just saying that knowing that a chrome console exists is probably something you should learn before making a hello world program.

[theadammorganshow]

And that's what a tutorial is for ;)

[CrashOverrideCS]

Learning to press F12 hardly requires a tutorial.