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.

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.

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 ...

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.

"JavaScript as a craft and as a mature language with an ecosystem of tools is still getting there. But more and more tools are getting developed and pushed out every day. The influx of node.js has ...