New cross-platform mobile app development tools, which use JavaScript, can be more effective than hybrid mobile app development tools and native approaches in making sure apps perform well on multiple ...

Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper, and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding. While Duolingo offers ...

Development tool maker Syncfusion Inc. recently updated its Essential Studio 2014 suite of tools with 27 new JavaScript libraries aimed at mobile app developers.

The Famo.us mobile Web framework runs faster than standard HTML and takes less development time than native code -- once you get up to speed ...

A few days ago, developer Felix Krause shared a detailed report on how mobile apps can use their own in-app web browser to track user data. Now Krause is back with a new tool that lets anyone see ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.

The San Francisco startup has a new SDK for JavaScript that makes it easier to build HTML5 apps. Parse has long billed itself as the “Heroku for Mobile,” a service that takes over the hassle ...

However, React Native -- announced at a February Facebook conference -- isn't a complete framework for mobile app development. It's often positioned as a good tool to produce the "view" part of apps ...

Glimmer, a library for building mobile applications that arose out of the Ember.js front-end JavaScript stack, will use custom bytecode to improve web application loading on mobile devices. The ...

Javascript is a very popular scripting language used in almost all web applications. Due to the fast technological growth, you can now download and run Javascript code right on your mobile device, ...