Over three decades of development, JavaScript has grown faster, sleeker, more capable, and much more complex. That’s good and bad. It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play.

Google says there’s no need to worry about JavaScript when it comes to search, as there’s nothing fundamentally different about it compared to static content. This is discussed in the latest episode ...

Last week we reported on a comment made by John Mueller of Google about the head section of your HTML and why you should keep it clean. John, on Friday, posted a Mastodon thread explaining more about ...

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JavaScript is bursting with front-end frameworks that offer everything a developer could want—but not all in one tool. Here’s how the top 10 reactive frameworks compare. One of the hardest parts of ...

JavaScript is a complex topic that can be extremely difficult to get a handle on. However, it has never been more important to understand it because JavaScript is becoming increasingly prevalent on ...

A research that analyzed over 10,000 samples of diverse malicious software written in JavaScript concluded that roughly 26% of it is obfuscated to evade detection and analysis. Obfuscation is when ...

Why browsers still allow pop-up dialogs, which are favored by scammers, is a mystery that baffles techies. As one user on HackerNews recently complained: "There are still malware and advertising sites ...

What is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format used to exchange data between web clients and web servers. The ...

Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming. It introduces imperative logic, functions, methods, loops, and many of the marvelous APIs that are available to iOS developers. But it’s ...