Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, ...

JavaScript is bursting with front-end frameworks that offer everything a developer could want—but not all in one tool. Here’s how the top 10 reactive frameworks compare. One of the hardest parts of ...

Vitest is available in the new main version 4.0. Updates are available for, among others, the browser mode, handling the end-to-end testing framework Playwright, and debugging with the Visual Studio ...

Much fanfare accompanied Google's elevation of its Firebase mobile back-end platform last week, but slipping under the radar was the quieter unveiling of Horizon, an open source JavaScript back-end ...

Parse, the Y Combinator-backed startup that powers the back-end for mobile apps like Band of the Day and Hipmunk, is rolling out support for mobile web apps too. The San Francisco startup has a new ...

Websites are too damn big. The average web page is about 2 megabytes, according to HTTP Archive, a site that tracks the performance of websites and the technologies they use. Sure you can download 2 ...