At its Node+JS Interactive conference in Montreal, the OpenJS Foundation announced welcoming into its midst Electron, a cross-platform desktop application development tool based on Node.js and Chromium. (more…)

We are developing NectarJS, a cross-platform JavaScript compiler. Some people doubt the efficacy of NectarJS. That's why we made a little benchmark that proves that JavaScript compiled with NectarJS can sometime be faster than C. (more…)

Zip files are ubiquitous files on the net. We use them frequently when sending an e-mail or downloading a program. What is a zip file? It’s an archive format which contains one or several files in a compressed form in order to reduce the overall size of...

While we’re doing amazing things with JavaScript on the server side, it’s important not to take our eyes off of some of the great stuff happening on the client side.  One such awesome project I recently discovered was JSZip:  a JavaScript library that all... (more…)

I was recently working on an application at work which was stable but had no automated test coverage. As it got bigger, I grew more worried about the fact that I couldn’t keep the entire code base in my head anymore.As an app gets larger, it becomes harde... (more…)