How and when browsers load and execute JavaScript from script tags

When exactly is a script loaded and when is it executed? How do the async and defer attributes affect it? What about modules? This overview/cheatsheet sums it up nicely:

The cheatsheet was extracted from this tweet by Addy Osmani

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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