Google recently released a new library called ZX, enabling developers to write CLI scripts using JavaScript without the hassle of dealing with Node.js directly.

Nashorn will support the javax.script (JSR 223) API. Support will be provided for invoking Java code from JavaScript and for Java to invoke JavaScript code. This includes direct mapping to JavaBeans.

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout.

To compose JavaScript scripts, they must be either managed in HTML, concatenated, injected, or manually fetched and evaluated. There is no native facility for scope isolation or dependency management.

A new generation of bundler, build, and dependency management tools is making JavaScript development simpler, easier, and faster. Give these seven special tools a try.

Integrating JavaScript and Blazor is a little awkward because you can't add JavaScript to a Blazor C# file. However, you can add JavaScript to the Index.html page under the wwwroot folder in the ...

JavaScript is a scripting tool, used in browsers to permit client-side scripts to interact with the user and control the browser. It is also used on server side applications.

Scripts can be dangerous, especially when you allow them to run on business computers that contain sensitive information. Google Chrome enables you to stop JavaScript scripts, as well as scripts ...

JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter. Martin Heller takes the new Rhino's two command-line script runners for a ...