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JavaScript interview questions

JavaScript interview questions for freshers and mid-level developers: core language concepts, Node.js and React, each with the answer and an explanation of why the other options are wrong.

  • 4 test papers
  • 50 practice questions
  • Answers explained
  • Updated

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Start where you are; each paper is 12 questions with a timer and a topic-by-topic report.

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Most technical rounds include a coding task. Write JavaScript or Python, run it against tests in your browser, then read a full solution.

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Most web developer interviews in India start with core JavaScript and then move to whichever side of the stack the role is for: Node.js on the server or React in the browser. Interviewers often show a short snippet and ask what it prints, to see whether you can reason about code rather than recite definitions.

What do JavaScript interviews test?

  • Core JavaScript: types and coercion, var/let/const and hoisting, closures, this, the event loop and promises.
  • Node.js: how one thread serves many requests, what blocks the event loop, and error handling in Express.
  • React: keys, state updates and batching, hooks, and why mutating state does not re-render.

How should you prepare?

Answer each question before opening the explanation, and say your reasoning out loud the way you would in an interview. For snippet questions, paste the code into your browser console or a Node.js file and change one line at a time until the output makes sense.

How to prepare with these quizzes

  1. Practise first. Each quiz page lists every question with its answer and explanation hidden until you open it.
  2. Take the timed test. One question at a time, a timer, a question map, and “mark for review”, like an online assessment round.
  3. Read your report. Your score, pass mark, time taken, and which topics and difficulty levels you dropped marks on.
  4. Retry what you got wrong. Rerun only the missed questions until they stick. Your past scores stay in this browser.