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Typescript on JVM passing by Nashorn

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The last trend, from Java to Javascript I’ve developed a lot with Java (until java 8) but lately i’m progressively, for several reasons, moving to other programming languages with a prevalence of JavaScript. Yes, this means that I’m becoming a full stack developer using, mainly, ionic/angular for front-end development and nodejs for back-end development. Use Typescript as an enhanced Javascript Really, more than works with JavaScript, I use Typescript that I consider a must-to-use for developing on javascript-aware environment/runtime. A deep dive in Typescript is not the objective of this article, for now consider typescript an enhanced JavaScript that transpile itself in pure javascript so when we’ll use the Typescript word will imply that being the scene there is javascript The Enterprise dilemma - Javascript on back-end However in my opinion Javascript / angular / nodejs is a great technology stack but, working as consultant in Enterprise projects, there is a re...

JAVASCRIPT REBORN: Node.js, Nashorn, JavaScriptCore

JavaScript: A language for HTML into Browser (?) JavaScript language has been considered for long time, strictly joined both with HTML and Internet Browsers. First with DHTML then with AJAX and finally with HTML5  javascript has rapidly became wide used into web programming land. But, as said, JavaScript was less famous as programming language for business or concerning whatever stuff outside the browser.  Concerning my experience, i remember that i used JavaScript, out of Browser, for develop web app in Microsoft Active Server Page (long time ago) using JScript  (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript ) and other small projects using   Mozilla Rhino  2012, JavaScript reborn Now seems that JavaScript is reborn as a "common purpose" programming language, breaking definitely the browser's borders.  Throughout 2012, JavaScript seems to be solving problems across the industry, causing some justifiable hype across a number of libraries and f...