Grails gets cozy with AngularJS for better JavaScript

The Grails Web application framework will be paired with the AngularJS JavaScript framework to help developers build SPAs (single-page applications). Version 3.1 of Grails, due by the end of this year, will feature an AngularJS profile with targeted ... more

Nginx boosts devops with custom JavaScript

Nginx is introducing a version of JavaScript that will be used to configure the Nginx Web server -- a move seen by analysts as improving the server's standing in devops. Nginx will release today a preview of the technology, called NginScript. Through ... more

NodeSource eases path for Node.js in the enterprise

NodeSource will attempt to fill what is seen as a big gap in Node.js options: An enterprise-level version of the platform, complete with 24/7 support. Version 1.0 of NSolid, released Tuesday, is based on the recently released Node.js 4.0, known simply ... more

Q&A: The JavaScript-based React UI library explained

React, the result of collaboration between Facebook and Instagram, provides a JavaScript library for developing user interfaces. It abstracts away the DOM and is intended to improve performance, as well as provide a simpler programming model. And Facebook's ... more

Inside NPM: Building and sharing JavaScript packages

The Node Package Manager, NPM, has become a powerful and important tool, supporting many different JavaScript frameworks -- including JQuery, AngularJS, and React JS. If you’re building JavaScript modules and want to share them with the world, NPM is ... more

Facebook takes Relay JavaScript framework open source

Facebook this week is open-sourcing Relay, which provides data-fetching for React JavaScript applications. The move could open up new possibilities for the technology, Facebook engineers said. Accessible on GitHub, Relay is a JavaScript framework for ... more

IBM snaps up StrongLoop to add Node.js smarts to BlueMix

StrongLoop, a major participant in the Node.js ecosystem, has a new owner: IBM. This isn't IBM trying to become a Node player by proxy; IBM is already a founding member of the Node.js Foundation. Rather, it's about IBM adding the enterprise-level expertise ... more

Node.js 4.0.0 arrives with ECMAScript 6 backing

Version 4.0.0 of Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript platform also known simply as Node, arrived this week, equipped with ECMAScript 6 and ARM processor accommodations. Proponents of Node detailed the release in a blog post on Tuesday. Accessible ... more

Node.js process manager set for 1.0 upgrade

The open source project PM2, which serves as a production process manager for the Node.js programming language, is expected to reach release 1.0 in about a month. Sponsored by Keymetrics, PM2 features capabilities such as a cluster mode, for scaling ... more

AngularJS creators chart developer-friendly upgrade path

While the planned AngularJS 2 release represents a rethinking of the popular JavaScript framework, a co-author assures developers not to worry: An upgrade path has been set forward with the goal of making the move predictable. AngularJS, also known simply ... more

New JavaScript-based language brings the speed

The list of languages compiling to JavaScript is about to welcome newcomer Imba, a speedy language for the Web. Currently in a late-beta stage, Imba is the brainchild of developer Sindre Aarsaether, of Oslo, who sees tags and selectors in the language ... more

Why Node.js beats Java and .Net for Web, mobile, and IoT apps

A couple of years ago, the development team at AnyPresence was tasked with implementing a back-end server API generator for a large customer that wasn’t comfortable using Ruby on Rails in production and preferred an option in the Java ecosystem. To meet ... more

Netflix builds JavaScript library to fetch data

With its Falcor project, Netflix offers a JavaScript library for efficient data-fetching, with developers able to represent remote data sources as a single domain model via the JSON Graph convention. Netflix, which uses Falcor for the company's mobile, ... more

Cobol -- yes, Cobol -- gets a bridge to Node.js

Linking the old world of programming with the new, a Web developer from Romania has built a bridge between highly fashionable Node.js and that venerated but antiquated business programming language: Cobol. Found on Github, the node-cobol project enables ... more

React JavaScript library gets new tools

React, a JavaScript library co-developed by Facebook and Instagram for building user interfaces, is getting "entirely new" developer tools. The tools, which are in a beta release stage, feature such capabilities as a tree view, for richer views ... more

Unforked: io.js v3 sets stage for Node.js merger

What is expected to be the last line of the io.js platform made its debut this week, with the arrival of version 3.0.0. Downloadable from the project's website, io.js 3.0.0 works with an upgraded V8 JavaScript engine, known as version 4.4.63.26. V8 also ... more

Samsung banks on JavaScript, Node.js for IoT

Samsung looks to leverage JavaScript as a mechanism for IoT (Internet of things) development with its IoT.js project. The recently unveiled IoT.js serves as a lightweight version of Node.js. "IoT.js aims to provide interoperable service platform ... more

Free course: "JavaScript: The Good Parts"

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