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.

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.

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

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 ...

They all support HTML 5, Javascript, Json, etc. On the server one has server-side Javascript as a viable option, and lots of databases (Mongo, for example).

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 ...