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Although Netscape released a JavaScript server shortly after JavaScript for the browser, the language didn’t really take off for back-end use until the rise of Node.js starting in 2009. Part of what ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note, this article deals with client-side JavaScript. For a client and server-side JavaScript ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

JavaScript frameworks have been growing in popularity over the last few years, thanks in no small part to the flexibility they offer. “JavaScript frameworks allow for rapid development. It offers ...

Three years after its last major security bug, the jQuery JavaScript library --used on 74 percent of all internet sites-- has received another security patch this week. This security update addresses ...