The Microsoft JavaScript Upshot library provides a simplified API for retrieving data from the server and caching it at the client for reuse. Coupled with Knockout, the two JavaScript libraries form ...

reWeb 2.0 has brought with it the need to develop extensive JavaScript infrastructure code on the client side, something few Java developers saw themselves doing five years ago. The open source Dojo ...

A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla’s Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the World ...

Regardless of which language you chose, you now have a client-side database ready for you to add data to (and I'll look at how to do that in my next column). I imagine that experienced JavaScript ...

Google is developing a new scripting language for the Web that the company hopes will eventually supplant JavaScript. The language, which is called Dart, will be presented next month during an opening ...

On January 1, 2020, California's new privacy law took effect, which will dramatically increase security risks for any company operating there as well as for third parties that might have access to ...

JavaScript, while perhaps the language with the most buzz these days, nonetheless continues to score relatively low in the Tiobe index of popular programming languages. But the popular Web development ...

It's not news to find out that JavaScript has become the new crowd favorite for front-end development, but what is surprising is how quickly it is also catching on in the back end, powering many of ...

Faster webpage loading times play a big part in user experience and SEO, with page load speed a key determining factor for Google’s algorithm. A front-end web developer must decide the best way to ...

Here’s a new Y Combinator-backed startup that’s sure to catch they eye of plenty of web developers: Proxino, a new service that promises to let developers detect errors on all of their client-side ...

You want to build a website or web app. So, what are the best web programming languages available, and why are they the best? It's a weighty question, and I'd like to emphasize -- strongly and upfront ...