I would also disagree that is beginner friendly to write a webapp in javascript. Unless the op, just meant getting "hello world" on the screen from an HTML fil

I would also disagree that is beginner friendly to write a webapp in javascript. Unless the op, just meant getting "hello world" on the screen from an HTML file, but that is a meaningless metric imo. Writing a web app in JS is hard, getting the workflow all sorted, and then writing bugfree code. IS more a herculean task than "beginner friendly"