12 terms starting with J.

J Web

JAMstack

An architecture — pre-rendered HTML, APIs, and Markup — served from a CDN.

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Java

A statically-typed language powering a huge chunk of enterprise software.

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JavaScript

The programming language of the browser — and increasingly the server.

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Jira

Atlassian's project-management tool — issues, sprints, boards, roadmaps.

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JIT Compilation

Just-in-Time compilation — turning code into machine instructions at runtime.

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Joomla

An open-source CMS popular in the mid-2000s.

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jQuery

A JavaScript library that simplified DOM and cross-browser scripting in the 2010s.

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JS Bundle

The bundled JavaScript file a browser downloads to run a modern web app.

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JSON

JavaScript Object Notation — the ubiquitous data-exchange format between systems.

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JSON-LD

JSON for Linked Data — Google's preferred format for structured-data markup.

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JSONP

A pre-CORS workaround for cross-domain JSON requests using script tags.

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JWT

JSON Web Token — a compact signed token used for API authentication.

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