Visual Studio Code is a code editor that is completely free and open-source. It has been developed by Microsoft and is highly regarded by developers due to its lightweight, fast, and extensible design ...

JavaScript, the lingua franca of the web development world, has undergone a remarkable evolution since its inception. From being a simple client-side scripting language, it has grown into a powerful ...

ES5, or ECMAScript 5, is the fifth edition of the ECMAScript standard, which is the specification for JavaScript. It was standardized in 2009 and brought several significant updates and improvements ...

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “protestware” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the ...

Today, there are a number of development tools available for JavaScript developers to make the job easier. These tools let us focus on stop worrying about the mundane tasks related to application ...

For the last few years, I’ve been running into presentation after presentation on generative art, meaning art created with code. Two talks at the Strange Loop 2018 conference in September were the ...

ES6 refers to version 6 of the ECMA Script programming language. ECMA Script is the standardized name for JavaScript, and version 6 is the next version after version 5, which was released in 2011. It ...

Software vendor Onux tackles the issue of type safety in JavaScript with a language called JS++, or JavaScript++, which checks types at compile time as opposed to runtime. The Onux JS++ compiler ...

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard a little bit about ECMAScript 6 (ES6) already, though at first glance it might seem a little confusing. What it really boils down to is this: it’s the next ...

Looks like web compiler is translating our JS in ES5 compatible JS then saving and minifying the ES5 file. That's great, however, it would be nice to not have the .es5 in the minified output filename.