The open source project Node.js was invented by Joyent software engineer Ryan Dahl three years ago next month. It essentially allows JavaScript to be used outside of a browser. Node leverages Google’s ...

The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses “design mistakes” in Node.js. The Deno ...

Why bother having one language for the client and one for the server? Why do I have to write code in the web page in JavaScript but when I move to the server I have to switch to PHP or something else?

Even with competition from newer runtimes Deno and Bun, Node.js remains the flagship JavaScript platform on the server. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a ...

Node.js fixes 10 flaws, including a Brotli decoder bug that may allow code execution when apps decompress attacker-controlled ...

Node.js is popular among developers as an asynchronous and event-driven language used for backend development. It has a syntax easy enough to understand even for beginners. Whether you’re a beginner ...

Node.js has been the delight of San Francisco hackers for the past couple years now, but startups and indie developers aren’t the only ones using JavaScript on the server side. At Node Summit today, ...

When the scale of your application is “everyone on the Internet,” you have to think a bit differently about adopting new technologies. At the Node Summit today, a bevy of “big boy” company executives ...