An example of Node.js code that launches a Web server and creates ASCII art from a JPEG image being executed from within COBOL code. Because we can.

The package registry for Node.js code, npm, is the largest package ecosystem ever. There are nearly 300,000 packages according to modulecounts.com — more than 300 new packages added daily, ...

For every coder crowing about the purity and youth of Node.js and the simplicity of JavaScript everywhere, there’s another who’s happy with the deep code base and long-understood stability of PHP.

Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user ...

Node.js is also being put to new uses. In a user survey published last April, the Node.js Foundation noted the platform -- with more than 3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent -- ...

Node.js has quickly become one of the most popular platforms for writing server-side code. Windows, however, was never quite the right operating system to develop node.js applications on. That may ...

Where Node.js wins: Ubiquity. Thanks to Node.js, JavaScript finds a home on the server and in the browser. Code you write for one will more than likely run the same way on both.