The world of JavaScript frameworks keeps growing. One of the latest entrants, jsblocks, is positioned as more powerful than Backbone and faster or more flexible than React, Meteor, and AngularJS. An ...

Since Google Plus and a few other cutting-edge websites now render entirely on the client, let's review why server-side rendering is desirable at all. Server-side rendering means when the browser ...

Google’s web crawlers have come a long way in recent years in their ability to fetch and execute JavaScript. However, JavaScript integration remains tricky when setting up the front end of a web app.

I'm finding myself in a situation where using some client-side JavaScript is needed (i.e. way more convenient than the alternatives), and I would like to do it in a browser-independent ...

Faster webpage loading times play a big part in user experience and SEO, with page load speed a key determining factor for Google’s algorithm. A front-end web developer must decide the best way to ...

Here’s a new Y Combinator-backed startup that’s sure to catch they eye of plenty of web developers: Proxino, a new service that promises to let developers detect errors on all of their client-side ...

W3C has published a new working draft of a proposed standard that will enable limited filesystem access from JavaScript. This will make it possible to do efficient ...

The perceptions that critical operations are performed on the server side and that all data is stored there are incorrect. What many browsers do today involves reaching out over an unencrypted ...

Popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular, Ember and React have fueled enthusiasm for applications that perform most of their rendering on the client-side. Sadly, the power and benefits of ...