#node.js

After initially breaking away from the grips of Joyent and Node.js, io.js has now officially signed up with the Node.js Foundation, putting an end to the community split.

A new drop from io.js brings in the upcoming version of JavaScript (ES6), with io.js 2.0 delivering a bevy of bug fixes and features no longer behind a staging feature flag.

Persistence has payed off in the latest Node.js development, with staff from io.js and the Linux Foundation working to bring the band back together. The spin-off framework might finally be coming home.

Nowadays, everybody’s talking about continuous delivery, but how many of us can say we’ve encountered “Local Continuous Delivery”? In this guest post, blogger Chris Yanx shows us a novel approach to automating a local build system with Grunt, Node.js and Java.

Delivering on their promise, the team behind Node.js fork JXcore have released the framework as entirely open source, with the SpiderMonkey crew acknowledged for their efforts. The Node.js community can add another notch to is widening belt.

Following the release of Node.js 0.12, Joyent has announced a Node.js foundation led by major industry players. But will it help patch up the schismatic Node community?

Avatar’s days are numbered. After months of tumbleweed tumbling through the Avatar project, Oracle has performed a sharp u-turn and cancelled its plans for an Avatar 2.0 release.

Where Node.js meets IoT – the Node-RED web service lets users build a graphical interface into their website to control data flow between modules, all on top of Node.js.

GitHub’s text editor Atom is currently available via pre-release at version 1.0, however the API is considered stable. We take a quick look at the editor’s main features.

The new release of Node.js fork IO.js has commentators wondering if the fork is looking to “outdo” it’s original project. What does this new release hope to achieve?

Node.js is about to change. The IO.js fork is set to splinter the JavaScript community, but its makers say they just want to drive Node forwards.

Niko Köbler continues his investigation of the new version of Oracle’s Avatar and its Model Store API.

Oracle recently announced a new version of the JavaScript platform Avatar. It’s time to take a deeper look at the changes that await us.

Improvements to version 1.1 include a Dart2JS compiler that outputs JS more performant than hand-written code.