Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

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Jailed uses native JavaScript functions to run other libraries in a sandboxed environment, which could be the route to safer plugins and better automated testing of code A recently revised JavaScript ...

Backend development is mainly defined by the library used to develop it. Choosing modern, optimized Node.js libraries directly impacts scal ...

Leaning Technologies today launches BrowserPod for Node .js, the first engine of BrowserPod, a universal execution layer for browser-based compute. BrowserPod provides a sandboxed runtime API that ...

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lightrun, the leader in IDE-native observability, today announced support for JavaScript’s most popular back-end run-time, Node.js. Lightrun becomes the first ...

Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user reported ...

How do the old guard and the upstart darling of the server-side web stack up against each other? Let’s compare It’s a classic Hollywood plot: the battle between two old friends who went separate ways.