In the history of computing, 1995 was a crazy time. First Java appeared, then close on its heels came JavaScript. The names made them seem like conjoined twins newly detached, but they couldn’t be ...

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The OpenJS Foundation has launched a new program to support companies in switching to current Node.js versions.

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

Microsoft ’s approach to openness is continuing positively; from a software application development perspective at least. Naysayers will still argue that it’s too little, too late and that it is ...

Move over, Java. Node.js is coming through. Node.js advocates at a recent event at PayPal’s Silicon Valley offices told how they are moving over to Node.js, the server-side version of JavaScript, at ...

Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical module in npm, a package manager for widely-used JavaScript projects. Countless projects were left in limbo ...