JavaScript

Firefox users expect improved JavaScript performance in Firefox 83 browser, with Warp update to SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine enabled by default.

Gary Illyes from Google said on Twitter it is probably not a good idea to use JavaScript redirects. This was specific to redirecting users based on their location to a country specific version of the page. But Google has said before that…

Kite, maker of an AI-powered auto-complete programming tool for Python, has added JavaScript support. The company also introduced a pro-grade paid plan to supplement its free add-on for Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom, and other…

As web developer Jeremy Keith said in 2009, “Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.” The exact accuracy of that analogy is debatable, but the spirit behind it is solid: Java and JavaScript, despite sharing a common linguistic root,…

Microsoft-owned GitHub has signed an agreement to purchase JavaScript package registry provider NPM, with plans to integrate the two platforms and move the private NPM packages of paying NPM customers to the GitHub Packages registry. NPM…

Scala.js, a dialect of the Scala programming language that compiles to JavaScript, has reached 1.0.0 status after seven years of development. Unveiled February 25, the Scala.js 1.0.0 release promises better runtime performance, better…

The world wide web basically runs on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript. What is JavaScript? JavaScript started out…

Google is good, really good, at rendering JavaScript these days, even pretty inefficient JavaScript. So much so that Martin Splitt from Google said the only time you really need to worry about CPU usage being a problem is when it is such a…

If you want to work for Google (or at least for its parent company, Alphabet), it will help if you can code in one of four key programming languages. They’re all pretty mainstream. In the chart below we’ve plotted the percentage of…

Martin Splitt from Google said that his co-worker, Lizzi Harvey, has updated the JavaScript SEO basics guide and the JavaScript troubleshooting guide for web components. The JS guide now shows the best practices for web components and…