Zepto is described as “a minimalist JavaScript library with a largely jQuery-compatible API.” Developers who know jQuery already know how to use Zepto, its makers go on to say.

However, if developers wanted to use JavaScript inside Java portions they could, because—you guessed it!—a library called Nashorn, which is bundled with the core Java platform, enables ...

Front-end web development has been evolving rapidly, which means the in-demand JavaScript libraries and frameworks continue to change. According to analysis of tech job postings by recruitment ...

Judging by downloads from the NPM registry, React, Facebook’s popular JavaScript UI library, has seen good fortunes lately as a front-end JavaScript framework while the Backbone framework has ...

Google Inc. last week launched its Google AJAX Libraries API, enabling developers to use the company’s global infrastructure to host and serve major JavaScript libraries. “What it is really ...

The JavaScript library that will make other developers bow down, awed by our ability to pick the proven winner. Hey, I do it too. Maybe, just maybe, in this space it's not crucial to pick the winner.

There are a lot more helpful JavaScript libraries for dealing with data, some of which we’ve already covered. Don’t miss Computerworld‘s earlier write-ups of Google Chart Tools, ...