A big part of MEAN’s appeal is the consistency that comes from the fact that it’s JavaScript through and through. Life is simpler for developers because every component of the application—from the ...

Web application development has evolved into a discipline that melds sophisticated front‐end interactivity with robust back‐end functionality, utilising languages such as JavaScript as a fundamental ...

This has been a big year for JavaScript. New, fast engines have tested their legs. Libraries have matured. With the ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the language is growing. However, the language remains ...

JavaScript has established itself as a programming language of choice for web applications, thanks in part to a sharp rise in popularity with the launch of native frameworks for building scalable ...

jQuery is a Javascript library that is used in a large number of web applications and is popular amongst web application developers. It was launched in 2006 by John Resig, and immediately gained a ...

Editor’s note: Spike Brehm, the author of this post, is just one of the amazing hackers we’ve got speaking at DevBeat 2013, our first-ever developer conference taking place next week, Nov. 12-13 in ...

Client-side JavaScript is great for making innovative and user-friendly web sites. Next to AJAX, a web technology well established to trigger the load of certain page content on demand, so-called ...