Finding the right talent in the tech industry is rarely a simple task, but sourcing high-quality Node.js developers can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. I have spent years working with ...

How do the old guard and the upstart darling of the server-side web stack up against each other? Let’s compare It’s a classic Hollywood plot: the battle between two old friends who went separate ways.

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Java and JavaScript are entirely different languages despite their similar names. Java is compiled and widely used for ...

Microsoft ’s approach to openness is continuing positively; from a software application development perspective at least. Naysayers will still argue that it’s too little, too late and that it is ...

With the ascendance of JavaScript as a first-class dev approach, Microsoft has embraced the open source Node.js technology in its tooling and services, even reaching out to the community for help in ...

People like to make fun of JavaScript. "It's not a real language! Who, in their right mind, would use it on a server?" The replies are: It's a real language and JavaScript is one of the most popular ...

Move over, Java. Node.js is coming through. Node.js advocates at a recent event at PayPal’s Silicon Valley offices told how they are moving over to Node.js, the server-side version of JavaScript, at ...

Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical module in npm, a package manager for widely-used JavaScript projects. Countless projects were left in limbo ...

Computers had fascinated him from childhood. But financial constraints meant Aman Kashyap could not go to a full-time college. He sat for the JEE a couple of times, but did not qualify. For a while, ...