I have another article up on the Adobe Animate team blog – this time dealing with the basics of using JavaScript and CreateJS within Animate CC.
For nearly 20 years, the programming language used within Animate (Flash Professional) projects has been ActionScript. So why the current shift to JavaScript? Well, it isn’t exactly as simple as that. For one thing, Animate is not a JavaScript only application. You use JavaScript in projects which require it, such as HTML5 Canvas and WebGL… but you can still use ActionScript on projects which are to be published for Flash Player or AIR, including AIR for Android and iOS – and Adobe continues to update these runtimes. It’s important to note that Animate is not a JavaScript and web-centric application – but is rather a platform and language agnostic application for working across a variety of platforms.