Google recently released a new library called ZX, enabling developers to write CLI scripts using JavaScript without the hassle of dealing with Node.js directly.

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.

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.

To compose JavaScript scripts, they must be either managed in HTML, concatenated, injected, or manually fetched and evaluated. There is no native facility for scope isolation or dependency management.

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 ...