Node has emerged as a platform for server-side JavaScript. Proliferation of cloud platform APIs gave rise to the idea that an app does not actually need a complex server back end.

Similarly, server-side JavaScript (SSJS) never made much of a splash, either. Netscape Enterprise Server supported it way back in 1996, but it was an expensive, proprietary product.

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. Dahl spoke passionately about the ...

Server-side JavaScript runtime Deno version 1.0 arrives to fix problems with Node.js. ... SEE: Programming language Rust's adoption problem: Developers reveal why more aren't using it.

While originally a language confined just to the web browser, JavaScript has become a requirement for server-side developers as well, as its use in cloud based and mobile applications has become more ...

Web Development: What are the tradeoffs of client-side rendering vs. server-side rendering? This question was originally answered on Quora by David Greenspan.

From the beginning, programming for the Web has been divided into different camps. In the browser, there was always just one language -- JavaScript -- that dominated. But on the server, there have ...

In an interview with Kenichi Suzuki from Faber Company Inc., Google Developer Advocate Martin Splitt recently shared key information about JavaScript rendering, server-side vs. client-side ...