N-API should break the dependency on Google’s V8 engine and help developers avoid recompilation for new versions and engines Help is on the way for developers building native modules for Node.js ...

The Node.js team has recently released Node.js 21. This release introduces changes such as updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, stable fetch and WebStreams modules, an experimental flag for altering m ...

It implements essential V8 APIs, making the change of the underlying JavaScript engine transparent to Node.js. The effort is still a work in progress, though, and is not an officially supported ...

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is built on the JavaScript engine that Chrome uses, V8. One of the main updates in this release is that the V8 engine was updated to version 11.8.

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

Built on top of Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js is credited with unifying web app development around a single programming language, JavaScript, allowing developers to run ...

Today, Google announced that App Engine is gaining support for the wildly popular Node.js JavaScript run-time. Starting today, you can now deploy your Node.js 8 applications to App Engine standard ...

The company also plans to submit a pull request to the Node.js project later in the year that would allow it to run with the Chakra engine so developers could swap it out over Google’s V8 engine.

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.