JavaScript variables hold a wide variety of information and can be used with virtually any data type. Here's how to use variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and more.

With its asm.js project, Mozilla is promoting a subset of JavaScript intended to improve Web application performance and extend C and C++ applications to the Web. Asm.js can be used as a low-level ...

New research shows Microsoft TypeScript's popularity is rocketing and that nearly all JavaScript developers are worried about open-source security.

JavaScript uses syntax influenced by that of C. JavaScript copies many names and naming conventions from Java, but the two languages are otherwise unrelated and have very different semantics.

Learn more about AJAX, a technique that uses JavaScript and the XMLHTTPRequest object to create faster and better interactive web apps.

A security researcher has developed a technique that enables him to use javascript and timing attacks to steal browser data.

The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses "design mistakes" in Node.js. The Deno ...

We all remember the litany from various math classes we’ve taken, where frustration at a failure to understand a difficult concept bubbles over into the classic, “When am I ever going t… ...