They all support HTML 5, Javascript, Json, etc. On the server one has server-side Javascript as a viable option, and lots of databases (Mongo, for example).

The growing up of JavaScript is leading to a collision of sorts between the client and the server. Why use one scripting language on the client, and then a different scripting language on the server?

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

Node's ecosystem is growing at an exponential rate, which is only natural when you start from scratch. Still, the plethora of Node-inspired tools amount to a diverse and sustainable infrastructure ...

Akshell is a Cloud Service that helps developers do Rapid Application Development using server-side JavaScript and an online IDE. It also provides Cloud hosting, so deployment is instant. Its ...

The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses "design mistakes" in Node.js. The Deno ...

The second missing piece was a server, similar either to Tomcat/Jetty for Java or Mongrel/Thin for Ruby, that provides a real environment, includes the necessary modules and is easy to use. Most ...

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 ...

Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit? The Bun team has released version 1.2.21 of its JavaScript bundler and runtime, written in Zig, adding features including built-in drivers ...

Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL ...