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With the rise of Node.js, server-side JavaScript is becoming an important cloud, container, and web development language.

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

Microsoft spotlighted the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js, which the company launched in December, with a demo at the recent Node Summit in San Francisco. During his keynote presentation at the event, ...

As anyone who has programmed in JavaScript, and especially in asynchronous AJAX, knows, JS is extremely well suited to event-driven programming. Node.JS brilliantly combines packaging and an ...

While originally a language confined just to the web browser, JavaScript has become a requirement for server-side developers as well, as its use in cloud based and mobile applications has become more ...

What is the secret horror of working with NodeJS? Silverio: The secret horror of NodeJS being server-side JavaScript is that the two languages are the same, but the platforms are different. Running a ...

1] Install NPM and Node.JS Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that lets developers run JavaScript outside of a browser, often for server-side applications.

Presto change-o, it was answering requests very quickly. [ Also on InfoWorld: “ JavaScript conquers the server ” | Node.js is an InfoWorld 2012 Technology of the Year Award Winner.