Help! Where can I find information on Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS)?

Welcome to the land of Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS). While Marketing Cloud offers an integrated programmatic language with AMPscript, it’s not always convenient to learn an entirely new way of interacting with a platform. To help developers get started more quickly, Marketing Cloud put together Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS).

What is Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS)? In a nutshell, SSJS is an older version of vanilla JS that is processed on the server instead of on the client-side computer. Due to it processing on Marketing Clouds server instead of client-side, it does not work with the DOM nor does it function with external libraries. SSJS is mostly used inside of landing pages/CloudPages, but it does have uses inside of messaging as well as in Automation Studio Script Activities.

So how do you get started with this fancy footwork? Where do you go for help? Here's a list of all the Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS) resources from the wider community available to you:

Trailblazer Community:

• SFMC Server-Side JavaScript 1: Platform Intro by Greg Gifford
• SFMC Server-Side JavaScript 1.5: JS Background by Greg Gifford
• SFMC Server-Side JavaScript 2: Overview Library by Greg Gifford
• SFMC Server-Side JavaScript 3: Platform Library by Greg Gifford
• Loops in AMPscript and Server-Side JavaScript by Zuzanna Jarczynska
• Find a Data Extension and it’s folder path using SSJS by Zuzanna Jarczynska
• Trigger SMS text messages using Server-Side JavaScript by Zuzanna Jarczynska
• How to generate a Data Extension with random records using server-side JavaScript by Ivan Razine
• How to convert a Data Extension into a TriggeredSend Data Extension using server-side JavaScript by Ivan Razine
• How to create universal auto-generated forms with server-side JavaScript in Marketing Cloud by Ivan Razine
• How to filter and delete multiple Data Extension records with a Script Activity by Ivan Razine
• Securing CloudPages with SSJS in Salesforce Marketing Cloud by Markus Slabina
• Debugging Server-Side JavaScript by Tony Zupancic
• Using the TRY statement in SSJS by Cameron Robert
• Working with SSJS in Script Activities by Shibu Abraham

Videos:

• The when, where and how of using Salesforce Marketing Cloud SSJS

Developer Documentation

• Salesforce SSJS Syntax Guide
• SSJS Core Library Functions
• SSJS Platform Library Functions
• Salesforce StackExchange SSJS Articles

Trailhead

• Learn About Server-Side JavaScript

Community Sites

• Salesforce StackExchange
• HowToSFMC
• Email Geeks Slack Channel

Hopefully you have everything you need to get started with SSJS. Feel free to share your go to places.