Thanks to benefits such as developer familiarity with JavaScript, Node.js is displacing Ruby on Rails in some major installations. But the founder of Rails says he’s become bored with the discussion ...

Microsoft has pumped out 26 new short videos on YouTube offering beginners a path to learn about Node.js, the server-side JavaScript runtime environment for building ...

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Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain ...

Charlie Robbins and Marak Squires are high school friends, now all grown up and united by their passion for Javascript. Their company, Nodejitsu (also Paolo Fragomeni, who joined as a later co-founder ...

Although the main uses of Node.js that we keep hearing about are either real-time messaging systems like Voxer or machine-to-machine communications systems like DTrace, Node.js can also be used for ...

Redmonk’s annual programming language rankings – based on GitHub and StackOverflow traffic – were recently released and to no one’s surprise, JavaScript was ranked as the most popular programming ...

A little bit about Node.js, it is a beautifully written cross-platform open-source JavaScript runtime environment built on Google’s Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js basically lets you code ...

Want a good tech job? Then you need to know Linux and open-source software. One of the best ways to learn is via a Linux Foundation course. There are other Node.js classes out there. For example, ...