Most Node.js modules should work with ChakraCore, although a small set are natively bound to V8 APIs, Seth said. Microsoft last year introduced support for Node.js with Chakra to allow developers ...

It implements essential V8 APIs, making the change of the underlying JavaScript engine transparent to Node.js. The effort is still a work in progress, though, and is not an officially supported ...

Built on top of Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js is credited with unifying web app development around a single programming language, JavaScript, allowing developers to run ...

The technology behind Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine will be handed over to the open source community, the company announced on Saturday. Specifically, the company said it will separate the ...

Hot on the heels of Microsoft open-sourcing Edge’s ChakraCore JavaScript engine, it’s also submitted a pull request to the Node.js repository. The request contains a fully working version of ...

Today, Google announced that App Engine is gaining support for the wildly popular Node.js JavaScript run-time. Starting today, you can now deploy your Node.js 8 applications to App Engine standard ...

The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses "design mistakes" in Node.js. The Deno ...

Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore.It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.