Node.js, says IDC analyst Al Hilwa, has strengths in Web applications that follow an event-driven model: “The asynchronous nature of the language and its similarity to JavaScript, which is of ...

Node.js uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine from Chrome to run and execute JavaScript code outside the browser. SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) ...

If you like Node.js but not its package manager npm, or you want a more secure JavaScript runtime environment than Node.js, you might find the new open source project Deno of interest (the word ...

Node.js allows scalable ѕtandalone Javascript server programs by bundling Google's V8 with libraries for event-based I/O. InfoQ takes a look at what makes Node.js tick.

The underlying version of the Node.js JavaScript engine, V8, is updated to version 8.1 of V8, providing recent advances in ECMAScript including optional chaining, nullish coalescing, and various ...

The Node.js upgrade means AWS Lambda developers now have access to the latest long term support (LTS) version of Node.js, called Boron, that was named an active LTS release last October. Node.js v4 ...

The reason for this rise can be found in the latest survey of 33,000 developers from 156 countries who use npm, a hugely popular Node.js JavaScript package manager that's traditionally used to ...