JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

An app doesn’t have to rip out its backend and replace it with Node.js to use isomorphic JavaScript, essentially throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Microsoft's new dotnet new tool provides JavaScript developers an easy way to spin up Single Page Applications using ASP.NET and Node.js.

Apple brought huge JavaScript performance improvements to Mobile Safari in March of this year, but those benefits didn't extend to Web apps saved to a user's home screen. iOS 5 will remedy that ...

Last, but hardly least, there’s Node.js —the JavaScript runtime that powers the server side of the MEAN web application. Node is based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, the same JavaScript ...

Google, Intel, and Mozilla are developing SIMD.js, a JavaScript API for SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) calculations to boost high-performance Web applications.

The JavaScript performance improvements that accompany iOS 4.3—boosting raw performance as much as 2.5x—don't appear to carry over to in-app browsers or Web apps saved to the home screen ...

JavaScript web apps and web servers are susceptible to a specific type of vulnerabilities/attacks known as regular expression (regex) denial of service (ReDoS).

Of course, the developer also notes that not every app that injects JavaScript code into an in-app browser does so for malicious purposes, since JavaScript is the basis of many web features.