Node.js – Lawrence Hecht

download records for open soruce components: Java and JavaScript

July 21, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

JavaScript Inflection Point vs Java

With Node.js’s use on the server side, comparing JavaScript and Java is no longer apples vs oranges. With that context, it is noteworthy that last year the number of npm (Javascript) packages downloaded surpassed components in the maven (Java) components. According to Sonatype’s 2017 State of […]

node js survey: dependency update frequency

October 21, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Updating Dependencies in Node.js

Last week Facebook announced Yarn, which makes it easier to update dependencies with the npm registry. According to a recent RisingStack survey, 45 percent of Node.js developers update dependencies less than once a month. Whether Yarn will increase dependency updates is an open question, but it can’t […]