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JavaScript isn’t for everyone, but what are the alternatives? In this article, Future Hosting’s Matthew Davis looks at 5 of them and weighs the pros and the cons.

Maxim Salnikov’s International JavaScript Conference 2018 session about optimized Angular apps. In this performance-focused talk, he discusses how to help the framework build and the browser perform better with apps.

Programming legend Fabrice Bellard released a new project: the QuickJS JavaScript Engine landed with its first public release. This small, embeddable JS engine consists of just a few simple C files. Check out the benchmarks compared to other JS engines such as JerryScript and see how it performs.

The International JavaScript Conference’s early bird special ended July 11th. The conference features five focused tracks full of workshops, sessions, and over 60 international speakers. Learn about JS frameworks, libraries, machine learning with JS, best practices with Angular, DevOps, web development, and more.

The blockchain is one of the hot topics on the tech scene right now. If some expect it to revolutionize the internet, others see the blockchain as a solution for very specific use cases. What’s behind the hype? Ingo Rammer’s session from the International JavaScript Conference provides answers.

Nearly every programming language provides the ability to split the code that makes up a program into multiple files. The #include directive is used for this purpose in C and C ++, while Java and Python have the import keyword. JavaScript was one of the few exceptions up till now, but the new JavaScript standard (ECMAScript 6) changes this by introducing so-called ECMAScript modules. All major browsers already support this new standard – only Node.js seems to be lagging behind. Why is that?

Python continues to be the language of choice for all things scientific. Panel is a new open source high-level library for creating ways of showing off scientific data. It supports popular Python plotting libraries such as Bokeh, Matplotlib, and Datashader for data visualization. Create reactive objects with Panel and compose plots, tables, and more.

The International JavaScript conference may be over but don’t be sad just yet! We caught up with iJS speaker Olga Petrova and talked about re-architecting a JavaScript Class System.

The Electron framework helps developers create cross-platform desktop apps in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Now, the newest release v5.0.0 has arrived. It upgrades its core elements, Chromium, Node.js, and V8 to the latest versions, fixes previous issues, and adds a few new features and breaking changes.

The “Enterprise JavaScript in 2019” survey by npm reveals some trends for the JavaScript community. This year, respondents report that they want to learn WebAssembly, they are concerned about open source code security, and much more. Find out the key takeaways and see what’s expected for the years ahead.

By now, Node.js isn’t a small-time-player anymore when it comes to backend technology. However, the acceptance and distribution of the platform have only increased in recent years, so that more and more developers have to approach this technology. Node.js’ lightweight character is its biggest advantage, but nothing comes drawback-free. Sebastian Springer and Khaled Labidi explain more in this tutorial.

Last year, our readers stated that jQuery is still very much alive and relevant and the jQuery team proves it with a new release! Here, we have a look at the new features and improvements in jQuery 3.4.

When building tools for your business or analytics for customers, do you face problems with infrastructure maintenance? Cube.js makes it so that customizable JavaScript powered analytics are just a few lines of code away. Now, more than ever, there are plenty of helpful tutorials to get you up and running with better visualization.

We love StackOverflow, even if sometimes our questions are left unanswered. A recent study showed that Python is now the most questioned about language on StackOverflow. Previous the crown belonged to JavaScript. What are developers getting stuck on and turning to the Internet for answers?