JavaScript is the most in-demand programming language for developer jobs and one of the most versatile languages for full-stack development. Here's what you need to know about JavaScript. JavaScript ...

The key to understanding when (and when not) to deploy JavaScript has as much to do with the intent of the target application as it does JavaScript itself. The word “JavaScript” has become a lightning ...

JavaScript is still by far the most widely used programming language among developers, and Python has cemented its spot in second place ahead of Java, according to a large survey by developer tooling ...

More than any other programming tool, JavaScript has quite likely had the greatest impact on how individual users interact with the web. From interactivity to visual effects to extended functionality, ...

One of the challenges for people pursuing a career in programming is deciding which languages to learn. With so many languages used for different purposes, choosing the ones you want to study will ...

Every year, GitHub releases the Octoverse report, ranking the top technologies favored by its community of millions of software developers. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018. Here are ...

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 ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

The JavaScript companion for faster web applications will gain garbage collection and SIMD support as part of the effort to support more programming languages If its roadmap holds, WebAssembly, the ...

Security researchers have been warning about the weaknesses and issues with JavaScript and iframes for years now, but the problem goes far deeper than even many of them thought. A researcher in the ...