Jailed uses native JavaScript functions to run other libraries in a sandboxed environment, which could be the route to safer plugins and better automated testing of code A recently revised ...

A hacker has gained (legitimate) access to a popular JavaScript library and has injected malicious code that steals Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash funds stored inside BitPay's Copay wallet apps.

The library consists of two lines of raw source code, and developers can use it in their projects via a one-liner call. Its purpose is to let developers test if a JavaScript object is a "Promise ...

Give me locally hosted libraries and (shakes cane, yells at cloud) get off my lawn! There are plenty of tools out there to protect against installing malicious packages (we use an amphibian-themed ...

In most cases, native JavaScript code is better than a “bloated legacy library like jQuery,” he says. While jQuery had been the choice for making HTTP requests, for example, ECMAScript 6 ...

Today's Web landscape is fraught with numerous JavaScript libraries that are valuable. So it's inevitable that you'll ask yourself, "Which ones should I be using?" I spent several weeks this spring at ...

Libraries make coding in JavaScript simpler and more efficient by taking processes that would ordinarily require several lines of code to achieve and simplifying them, usually by creating a single ...

Optimizing your production bundle, which can contain code from several Javascript libraries, is perhaps the most important reason modern framework packages have tools and steps that weed out ...