JavaScript web apps and web servers are susceptible to a specific type of vulnerabilities/attacks known as regular expression (regex) denial of service (ReDoS).

JavaScript servers: Stability vs. innovation This review skipped over a number of different engines and approaches, in part because many of them are fading or at least being eclipsed by new projects.

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.” ...

An open source JavaScript server called node.js is becoming increasingly popular especially for communication servers and getting a lot of geek and startup love.

Redmonk's annual programming language rankings - based on GitHub and StackOverflow traffic - were recently released and to no one's surprise, JavaScript was ranked as the most popular programming ...

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 ...

The real breakthrough was Ryan Dahl's Node.JS. Ryan combined Google's highly performant V8 engine, JavaScript's natural asynchronous semantics, a module system and the basic modules to create a server ...