Tag: JavaScript

November 21, 2023

TypeScript 5.3, an upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant that adds support for import attributes for ECMAScript modules, is now available as a production release. TypeScript 5.3 also offers features ranging from stable support for resolution mode in import […]

October 5, 2023

TypeScript 5.3, an upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant now in beta, is set to support updates to an import attributes proposal for ECMAScript modules. The ECMA standards proposal features an inline syntax for module import statements to pass […]

September 27, 2023

Node.js went from an out-of-the-box idea to a mainstay in record time. Today, it’s a de facto standard for creating web applications, systems software, and more. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a host of utilities […]

September 19, 2023

DataStax on Tuesday said that it was releasing a new JSON API in order to help JavaScript developers leverage its serverless, NoSQL Astra DB as a vector database for their large language model (LLMs), AI assistant, and real-time generative AI […]

August 16, 2023

Prisma is a popular data-mapping layer (ORM) for server-side JavaScript and TypeScript. Its core purpose is to simplify and automate how data moves between storage and application code. Prisma supports a wide range of datastores and provides a powerful yet […]

June 15, 2023

For the 11th consecutive year, web development staple JavaScript was the most commonly used programming language among developers participating in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey. JavaScript was also the language that most developers surveyed desire, or want to use, followed […]

June 1, 2023

Bootstrap 5.3.0, the latest version of the CSS, JavaScript, and HTML web framework, has arrived with an emphasis on dark mode and custom color modes. The final stable release of this update to the mobile-first application framework was announced May […]

March 24, 2023

Fermyon Technologies has published Spin 1.0, the first stable release of the company’s open source framework for building event-driven microservice applications with WebAssembly. Spin 1.0 was formally introduced on March 22. With Spin, developers can build WebAssembly microservices and web […]

March 14, 2023

JavaScript has become a very important programming language since it was first developed in 1995. The programming language has become even more valuable in a world governed by artificial intelligence. A number of JavaScript programmers are developing AI applications for […]

January 27, 2023

Microsoft published a beta release of TypeScript 5.0, the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, on January 26. The new release aims to modernize decorators for class customization. Decorators, an upcoming ECMAScript feature, allow for customizing classes and their members in […]

January 19, 2023

JavaScript and Java both rank among developers’ most favorite and least favorite programming languages in JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 report. The just-released report is based on a survey of more than 29,000 developers. The most favorite languages cited […]

December 28, 2022

You hear the word AI everywhere you go. It has influenced all spheres of life and all domains of business. No wonder AI is now capable of writing computer code. This is indeed bad news for developers, who may lose […]

December 13, 2022

An active malware campaign is targeting the Python Package Index (PyPI) and npm repositories for Python and JavaScript with typosquatted and fake modules that deploy a ransomware strain, marking the latest security issue to affect software supply chains. The typosquatted […]

October 25, 2022

Two point-of-sale (PoS) malware variants have been put to use by a threat actor to steal information related to more than 167,000 credit cards from payment terminals. According to Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company Group-IB, the stolen data dumps could net the […]

September 28, 2022

Microsoft’s .NET 7 software development platform, due as a production release in November, improves support for running .NET on WebAssembly in JavaScript-based apps. Developers can use the expanded WebAssembly support in .NET 7 to reuse .NET libraries from JavaScript or […]

September 19, 2022

Best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language, Brendan Eich is also the founder and CEO of Brave Software, creator of the Brave browser, and co-creator of the Basic Attention Token. As CTO of Mozilla, he helped pilot […]

August 8, 2022

Microsoft Edge users will soon get an additional layer of security when browsing less popular corners of the web. The new feature will implement “more conservative” security settings for users when they are browsing unfamiliar sites. Dubbed “Enhanced Security Mode”, […]

April 1, 2022

Visual Studio Code 1.66, also identified as the March 2022 release of the code editor, has just been published by Microsoft. The new release brings improvements to JavaScript heap profiles, CSS code formatting, and local history. Visual Studio Code 1.66 […]

March 30, 2022

JavaScript is used for many different kinds of applications today. Most often, it works with HTML5 and CSS to build web front ends. But JavaScript also helps build mobile applications, and it has found an important place on the back […]

March 25, 2022

Mozilla has launched a new paid subscription service to further support the development of its Mozilla Developer Network (MDN). While developers already rely on MDN to find documentation and code samples for CSS, HTML and JavaScript, MDN Plus will add […]