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 ...

Node.js incorporates the Google Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which supports ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) syntax without any need for an ES6-to-ES5 transpiler such as Babel.

Built on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js is a library of JavaScript functions that work under an event-driven concurrency model, meaning they are especially well-suited for distributed ...

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...