Meta is transferring its popular open-source JavaScript testing framework, Jest, to the OpenJS Foundation. Jest is one of Meta's top open-source projects and has proven a popular tool for testing ...

JavaScript is the most in-demand programming language for developer jobs and one of the most versatile languages for full-stack development. Here's what you need to know about JavaScript. JavaScript ...

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Why browsers still allow pop-up dialogs, which are favored by scammers, is a mystery that baffles techies. As one user on HackerNews recently complained: "There are still malware and advertising sites ...

The key to understanding when (and when not) to deploy JavaScript has as much to do with the intent of the target application as it does JavaScript itself. The word “JavaScript” has become a lightning ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...

The risk in the JavaScript ecosystem isn't theoretical: earlier this month, a number of packages used by millions of developers were compromised via malicious code. These malware attacks against ...

The JavaScript companion for faster web applications will gain garbage collection and SIMD support as part of the effort to support more programming languages If its roadmap holds, WebAssembly, the ...

TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today. JavaScript poses certain challenges when ...

Every year, GitHub releases the Octoverse report, ranking the top technologies favored by its community of millions of software developers. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018. Here are ...