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In this post, Joy Clark, a consultant at innoQ claims that we don’t need JavaScript if we have a fundamental understanding of HTML forms and HTTP and explains how an HTML form works.

Maintenance is a thankless task, but it’s necessary to keep the internet running. Researchers from Northeastern have discovered shocking vulnerabilities in JavaScript libraries, leaving your code open to malware.

What is CSSX and how does it work? Why are developers already enchanted by the perspectives it offers? Rajiv Patil, co-founder of Nimblechapps, explains why CSSX is slowly becoming a buzzword. The only downside — it may take some time to get used to it.

Packt has just released its Skill Up 2016 survey report and it appears that the modern tech community is pretty clear about where their interest lies this year: JavaScript, Angular, the Internet of Things and machine learning, among others.

The Angular 2 codebase has been split in two: it now has a Dart version and a TypeScript/JavaScript version, as well as an AngularDart team.

Over the past week, the NetBeans team has communicated to the community, via its mailing lists, that NetBeans IDE 8.2 […]

In this article Dr Joseph Chen-Yu Wang, Chief Science Officer at Bitquant Research Laboratories, explains why JavaScript is the perfect language for creating smart contracts.

In this article, Niko Köbler advances an interesting idea: s JavaScript on its way to become —just like the JVM— a universal runtime platform? It may be that the JavaScript community is now exactly where we, in the world of Java, were 10-15 years ago.

Java champion Adam Bien spoke to JAXenter editor Gabriela Motroc about Java EE’s simplicity, the so-called JavaScript fatigue and the golden year of open source. Live from JAX 2016.

Since Angular 2 has reached beta phase and the stability of its API should now be guaranteed, it is time to take a closer look at the framework. Thanks to a plug-in, it is now possible to use TypeScript in the NetBeans IDE.

JavaScript fatigue initially revolved around React but it eventually started to spread and swallowed the entire JavaScript community. Being a bandwagon jumper and trying to use all the latest tools will inevitably lead to JavaScript fatigue, but here is how to resist it.

Earlier this week, many developers suffered a disruption when Azer Koçulu unpublished a package that JavaScript projects use to install dependencies, including left-pad, an 11-line npm package which has been downloaded more than 575,000 times. Over a thousand software projects were affected.

Announced at JavaOne and OpenWorld last year, and open sourced today, Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (Oracle JET) is an enterprise-ready JavaScript solution for developers working on client-side applications.

At the end of 2015, the AngularJS community announced the beta of Angular 2. The REST API development community followed the changes closely. Angular is one of the most popular frameworks for API developers to add a front-end to an API.