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 ...

The world of JavaScript frameworks keeps growing. One of the latest entrants, jsblocks, is positioned as more powerful than Backbone and faster or more flexible than React, Meteor, and AngularJS. An ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In past articles, I've covered different ways to understand, analyze and improve the performance of your web applications. I've shown that between your network connections, server hardware, database ...

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 ...

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 ...