Node.js is a server side framework based on top of Google’s V8 JavaScript Engine, that aims to assist developers in building highly scalable network programs, by using evented, non-blocking I/O.

Among the JavaScript skills in decline, jQuery has fallen 30% since 2015, while Ajax is down even more -- 54%. Backbone.js has also seen its appearance in job postings drop significantly since 2014.

Facebook has completely rewritten React, its popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The company hasn't previously talked about React Fiber, as the project is called, but it has ...

JavaScript has only gotten fast enough to do what his company is doing with it in the past few years, he explains. JavaScript, he says, is now about 80 percent as fast as compiled C code. Fast enough.

Meta is transferring its popular open-source JavaScript testing framework, Jest, to the OpenJS Foundation. Jest is one of Meta's top open-source projects and has proven a popular tool for testing ...

The entire core JavaScript library takes some 355K or so, but Steve Newcomb, the CEO and founder of Famo.us, says it can be smaller.

With the open-sourcing of its Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) this week, Microsoft is looking to get the technology spread to multiple browsers and platforms beyond Windows — and that ...

With the advent of big-data, good old spreadsheets just don’t cut it anymore. If you're looking for better ways to visualize data, here are the best JavaScript Charting Library for your needs.