How is Javascript translated to bytecode?

Question

I can\'t find information on the web how W3C languages compile to machine code. I know that the gap between the web and the processor must be somehow the browser, but how do

Answer 1

Javascript (as it's name suggests) is a dynamic scripting language. Meaning that it's code is analysed and executed at runtime by the web-browser's Javascript engine.

It is up to the Web-browser, how it wants to deal with Javascript. Some may generate an intermediate language, or bytecode. Some may directly analyse and execute it.

Here are the steps to the simplest way to execute Javascript (parsing and executing at runtime):