Several years ago, Netflix decided to refactor its main client application to JavaScript from C++. This approach promised a more consistent user interface (UI) and allowed Netflix to innovate new ...

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Shortly after the AJAX revolution, JavaScript escaped from the browser in the form of an application server platform based on JavaScript—Node.js—and databases such as MongoDB and CouchDB, which used ...

Web application development has evolved into a discipline that melds sophisticated front‐end interactivity with robust back‐end functionality, utilising languages such as JavaScript as a fundamental ...

Tracking errors in a way that makes them manageable is one of the most painstaking tasks for developers. In the past, we had to rebuild error tracking for every ...

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