Last, but hardly least, there’s Node.js —the JavaScript runtime that powers the server side of the MEAN web application. Node is based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, the same JavaScript ...

JavaScript web apps and web servers are susceptible to a specific type of vulnerabilities/attacks known as regular expression (regex) denial of service (ReDoS).

Since Web-based applications rely heavily on JavaScript, Web apps running from within Mobile Safari got a significant speed boost form this improvement. Web apps saved to the home screen for ...

Elsewhere in the JavaScript community, options such as create-react-app and the Angular CLI have provided those familiar with Node.js and NPM an easy way to spin up those kinds of apps.

Next week, we’ll take our shoehorned ReactPico class, refactor it to be more idiomatic, and publish it as an NPM package so everyone can easily add face recognition to their React apps.

JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google’s Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues. JavaScript is often used in a way that was never ...

Misko Hevery, creator of AngularJS, recently announced the beta availability of Qwik, his new web framework. Qwik claims to build applications that feel fast regardless of application size. In ...

What’s cool: With six available widgets for Google maps, bar charts, bubble charts and more, users just need to code simple HTML tables and lists in order to generate robust online visualizations.

JavaScript relies on hoisting for declarations (i.e., variables, functions, and classes), which allows developers to declare items after the point they’re syntactically used.