After Netscape dissolved into Mozilla, new stacks with JavaScript have come and gone as the true believers try again and again. Now some 15 years later, JavaScript on the server is back in vogue.

Netscape acquired LiveWire’s JavaScript server and shipped it in 1996 but then quickly replaced it with the Java and C++ based Kiva Application Server in 1998.

But JavaScript did have capabilities such as closures and anonymous functions, Dahl noted: “That kind of set the stage to introduce a new server paradigm that focuses on nonblocking I/0.” ...

The “MEAN” (MongoDB-Express-AngularJS-Node) stack, exploits the MongoDB database’s Javascript interface, the Angular Javascript presentation framework and Node to create a coherent software ...

Server-side JavaScript runtime Deno version 1.0 arrives to fix problems with Node.js. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer May 14, 2020, 6:03 a.m. PT ...

The JS Foundation’s mission is to shepherd the ecosystem around the language, while Node.js obviously focuses on the Node.js technology for using JavaScript server-side with the help of Google ...

Server-side rendering For clients that don’t execute JavaScript, server-side rendering can be used. “Server-side rendering is when all of that JavaScript is executed on the server-side.

Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. JavaScript for stored routines is currently in preview and only available in the MySQL ...

On the server one has server-side Javascript as a viable option, and lots of databases (Mongo, for example). “For the first time, end-to-end, we have the ability to lower the concept-count for ...