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Javascript: JS Foundation to Encourage Collaboration and Adoption of JS Best practices
The formation of a group known as the JS Foundation was recently announced. The goal of the group is to advance best practices and policies for Javascript application and server-side projects and to encourage collaboration in the development of new Javascript technologies.
Some of the initial projects that will fall under the umbrella of the new group include:
- Appium – a test automation framework
- Interledger.js – a protocol for payments across payment systems that enables secure transfers between ledgers
- JerryScript – a light-weight JS engine for IoT devices (from Samsumg)
- Mocha – JS testing framework [See this tutorial on Guru99]
- Moment.js – JS date library
- Node-RED – Flow-based programming environment
- Webpack – bundler for Javascript files used by a browser
Angel Diaz, IBM vice president of Cloud Technology and Architecture, said that the JS Foundation will “drive broad adoption and ongoing development of key JavaScript solutions and related technologies. When you look at stats around the JavaScript runtimes, such as Node.js, you see that the packages are being downloaded millions of times a month… Coming together like this gives us an opportunity to provide clear open governance for all this activity. People will know how to contribute code, so we all know that the things are accessible and sustainable. People will know that they can rely on a package, know that it’s supported, that there’s a development team around it as things evolve from version to version.”
