Now some 15 years later, JavaScript on the server is back in vogue. The buzz from the latest round of believers is that JavaScript is the “new Ruby,” for all of the same reasons that Netscape ...

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 ...

NodeJS, a server-side JavaScript platform built on Google's lightening-fast V8 engine by Ryan Dahl, showcases purely asynchronous IO and event loop concurrency.

But JavaScript did have capabilities such as closures and anonymous functions, Dahl noted: “That kind of set the stage to introduce a new server paradigm that focuses on nonblocking I/0.” ...

With the rise of Node.js, server-side JavaScript is becoming an important cloud, container, and web development language.