Node has traditionally been focused on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, but adding ChakraCore support will allow developers to target more platforms Microsoft on Tuesday submitted a pull request to ...

The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines. Last year, Microsoft came up with a plan to swap out Google’s V8 engine with Microsoft’s ChakraCore engine.

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Microsoft announced it will open source the JavaScript engine for the new Edge web browser released with Windows 10.