The OpenJS Foundation consists of 29 open source JavaScript projects including jQuery, Node.js, Appium, Dojo, and webpack.

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

Node.js uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine from Chrome to run and execute JavaScript code outside the browser. SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) ...

Latching on to the growing success of the Node.js platform, development tools provider Progress Software has acquired Modulus, which offers a platform for running the Node.js JavaScript runtime ...