Microsoft wants you to build for the cloud and has developed a free Node.js course to help learners on their journey.

First off, the Node.js Foundation and the JS Foundation, which the Linux Foundation launched in 2016, are merging to form the OpenJS Foundation.

Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

Latching on to the growing success of the Node.js platform, development tools provider Progress Software has acquired Modulus, which offers a platform for running the Node.js JavaScript runtime ...