Tabris.js is an open source mobile framework aimed to build native iOS and Android apps entirely in JavaScript. Among the main benefits of Tabris.js are performance, a fast development cycle, and ...

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A lightning-fast crash course on JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language. From its 1995 origins as Mocha in ...

I have also spent some time with a nearly-complete mobile app built using Famo.us. The scrolling function was smooth, and various images smoothly burst to larger sizes based on where my finger was ...

Parse, the Y Combinator-backed startup that powers the back-end for mobile apps like Band of the Day and Hipmunk, is rolling out support for mobile web apps too. The San Francisco startup has a ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.

The highly anticipated React Native project from Facebook has been officially open sourced and released, possibly heralding a sea wave change in mobile UI app development practices.

Google's in-development Fuchsia operating system has been slowly taking shape over the past three years. It appears to be designed for both mobile and desktop devices, with a real-time kernel and ...

Building apps in HTML5 and JavaScript may be easier than using other development tools, but there's still a learning curve. In the following interview, "Programming HTML5 Applications" author ...

A recent essay written by iOS developer Drew Crawford entitled “ Why mobile apps are slow ” goes to great lengths to illustrate the speed differences between “native” code and JavaScript ...