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.

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 ...

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn't extend to Web apps saved to a user's home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...

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 ...

It powers the web, application front-ends, and, thanks to an increasing number of server-side frameworks, back-ends as well. It's topped the Stack Overflow developer survey for six years running.

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 ...

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

He posted this on Google+ and titled it "An update (March 2016) on the current state & recommendations for JavaScript sites / Progressive Web Apps in Google Search.