A new generation of bundler, build, and dependency management tools is making JavaScript development simpler, easier, and faster. Give these seven special tools a try. It seems like every year is a ...

The open source JavaScript runtime Node.js has reached version 23. The most important new features include the standard activation of require(esm) for Node.js applications, remote support for 32-bit ...

A row that led a developer to delete a 17-line JavaScript module has stopped countless applications working. Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical ...

Vite.js, a free and open source JavaScript development server and bundler, is designed to speed up large-scale, modern web browser projects with native ECMAScript modules in the browser and JavaScript ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we took a look at the [then] forthcoming version 61 of Google's Chrome, which introduces some notable features, including support for a slew of new APIs. Chrome 61 is now ...

Microsoft shipped the beta release of TypeScript 4.7, which tackles a "very difficult feature," ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js. The difficulty arises from two different JavaScript module systems ...