Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

By creating the appropriate abstractions, we can write our application logic such that it runs on both the server and the client — the definition of isomorphic JavaScript.

This WAR contains both static HTML/JavaScript that is initially delivered and made resident on the clients browser and the Sherpa JSON Java application server endpoints that drive the HTML5 interface.

It is asynchronous, allowing modules written in JavaScript to perform other tasks while awaiting responses from users or web services. Node.js opens up distributed web application development to a ...

Node's ecosystem is growing at an exponential rate, which is only natural when you start from scratch. Still, the plethora of Node-inspired tools amount to a diverse and sustainable infrastructure ...

SproutCore: rich web apps in JavaScript, no Flash needed SproutCore is the JavaScript framework behind Apple's mobile application push … ...

Application development, whether it's client server, traditional web or a mobile web application, the recent trend is in using technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. James Ward spoke at ...

In a sense, the new environment is akin to function-as-a-service offerings such as AWS Lambda for JavaScript, but it runs on the edge rather than a server. Developers can focus on the application ...

Client-side JavaScript is great for making innovative and user-friendly web sites. Next to AJAX, a web technology well established to trigger the load of certain page content on demand, so-called ...

When improving the performance of web based applications, finding and solving JavaScript and Java performance issues can have the biggest overall impact.