node-gyp is a cross-platform command-line tool written in Node.js for compiling native addon modules for Node.js. It contains a vendored copy of the gyp-next project that was previously used by the ...

The Node team recently announced shipping TypeScript native support in Node 23.6. Node developers can now run TypeScript files without any extra configuration or flags. The feature, which was experime ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The bytecode is then run on the client—typically in a web browser—where it’s translated into native machine code and executed at high speed. WebAssembly code is meant to be faster to load ...

Thanks to the crazy changes in V8 (and some in Node core), keeping native addons compiling happily across versions, particularly 0.10 to 0.12 to 4.0, is a minor nightmare. The goal of this project is ...

Agoric, the JavaScript-native smart contract platform, has closed its public token sale, having sold more than $50M of BLD tokens in “less than two hours,” according to an update shared with ...