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October marked an interesting milestone for the JavaScript universe! Node.js Foundation and JS Foundation recently announced their intention to form a unified ecosystem – in other words, merge! After a small discussion on the story behind the merger, we invited you to participate in a poll to find out how you feel about the news. Here are the results!

Looking for an embeddable code editor with more features than you’ll know what to do with? Ace has been around since 2010 and there’s a reason why. Come see what this code editor offers and give it a test.

The time has come for another Currents report! The fifth edition of the Currents Report on Developer Trends in the Cloud is here and in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the open source movement, it is focused solely on the open source ecosystem. Here, we take a closer look at some of the most interesting highlights.

It’s this time of the year again! The State of Octoverse 2018 report is here and it’s rich with data on the usage of our favorite programming languages and technologies. Let’s take a closer look!

It’s here! Livestream the opening keynotes from the International JavaScript Conference 2018 from the comfort of your own home!

WebAssembly has been met with much fanfare with some even claiming it as a much needed match for JavaScript. Is there really a competition between the two? Or is it more like a partnership?

In order to optimize your webpage, you have to understand the workflows a browser performs in order to display a page on the screen. Nobody likes to wait for web pages to load in the browser so take out your pen and get ready to take some notes from Sebastian Springer on how to use some tools and best practices that will make your life, in terms of performance, easier.

It’s time to take another pick at what’s going on in the developer world! The 15th edition of the Developer Economics: State of the Developer Nation report has been released and it has some interesting insights into current developer trends.

After GitHub announced their decision to decouple from jQuery, we had a discussion on whether the museum is calling for this legendary tool. In the poll attached to that article, 429 of you voted and the decision is final: jQuery is here to stay!

Want to learn more about SonarJS and how you can use it to prevent bugs? In this session, Carlo Bottiglieri and Elena Vilchik will give you the perfect introduction!

Are your calendars marked for the International JavaScript Conference 2018? If you would like to dive deeper into topics such as DevOps, Angular, React, Node.js, web development and more, you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to meet top JavaScript experts. Hurry up, save up to 299€ and get a free tablet; Early Bird offer expires Thursday, September 13.

Babel 7 is here! Today, we’re taking a look at the fundamentals of this JavaScript compiler as well as the shiny new bells and whistles that are a part of the latest release like backwards compatibility, syntax transformation, and more!

The V8 JavaScript engine has a new baseline compiler. The new compilation pipeline is Liftoff, and it has some seriously fast results.

Is enterprise JavaScript really that hard? Or is it really usable in the context of enterprise applications and as the basis of front-end browser-based applications? Watch Geertjan Wielenga’s JAX London 2017 session and find out all the answers you need.