VisiCalc's legendary co-inventor argues that most developers should write mobile JavaScript apps rather than build apps in native code.

This code produces JSON messages again and the roundtrip starts over. >So, basically you can say native widgets are “remote controlled" by JavaScript code.

The JavaScript code that actually runs in the app is handled by Chakra. To support development of React Native apps, Microsoft has released the React Native extension for Visual Studio Code.

Facebook already uses React Native to build some of its main apps: Facebook Groups, for example, uses React Native to render many of its views from React’s Javascript into native code.

Facebook just open-sourced its React Native framework for building mobile apps. React Native promises to let developers write JavaScript while still delivering a real native user interface. That ...

In this podcast, Looper compares native app development platforms for iOS and Android with hybrid mobile app development frameworks and JavaScript cross-platform mobile app development tools. As she ...

The highly anticipated React Native project from Facebook has been officially open sourced and released, possibly heralding a sea wave change in mobile UI app development practices.

NativeScript lets developers code with familiar JavaScript, TypeScript, markup, and CSS APIs, and it interprets the code into native user interfaces on both iOS and Android.

As JavaScript became faster, the browser also became more capable. WebGL, for example, exposed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to the JavaScript developer.

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich included a demonstration of the H.264 decoder—codenamed Broadway—during a presentation at the ACM’s annual OOPSLA conference.