JavaScript scripts can be created in any text editor, such as Notepad and WordPad, but must be saved with a ".js" extension to be functional.

JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter. Martin Heller takes the new Rhino's two command-line script runners for a ...

Many Web pages use complex JavaScript scripts to interact with you, save your preferences or gather information about visitors to the site. If your Mozilla Firefox Web browser is set to block ...

A new generation of bundler, build, and dependency management tools is making JavaScript development simpler, easier, and faster. Give these seven special tools a try.

JavaScript is a programming language that can be embedded in web pages to offer interactive features like sounds, menus, etc. Some browsers support this script while some do not.

How to add scripts to Google apps If you’re comfortable with JavaScript, you can write your own original programs. Just open Docs or Sheets and go to Extensions, then click on Apps Script.

The first parameter to the RegisterClientScriptBlock method specifies the kind of object that will be accessing the script (typically, the Page object); the second parameter is the key that identifies ...

Grabbing snippets of code to run in Node.js—one of the most popular languages to develop networked software today—could be seen as a way to pull old code into the 21 st century.

Nashorn will support the javax.script (JSR 223) API. Support will be provided for invoking Java code from JavaScript and for Java to invoke JavaScript code. This includes direct mapping to JavaBeans.