Microsoft recognizes value of Node.js to Windows 10 IoT developers, reaches new milestone

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Published on January 20, 2016

published on January 20, 2016

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Microsoft recently open-sourced their ChakraCore JavaScript engine for the Edge browser, making it available in GitHub for developers to dig into. At the same time, Microsoft continues to push their Windows 10 IoT platform for Raspberry Pi devices, sensors, appliances, and other things. Today, the Windows team pushed out a blog post that provides some details on how Node.js is bringing it all together.

Essentially, Microsoft recognizes the value of Node.js to IoT developers and the maker community, and has been actively updating Node.js Windows 10 IoT Core support to enable new applications.

Yesterday, Node.js support for Windows 10 IoT Core reached a new major milestone. The Chakra team submitted a Pull Request(PR) to mainline Node.js using the recently open sourced ChakraCore JavaScript engine. Once accepted, this PR will allow us to move at the speed of Node.js while accomplishing two goals. First, growing organically based on community feedback and, second, bringing innovation faster to the developers on Windows 10 IoT Core. As per our roadmap, detailed in this blog, the Chakra team will continue to work closely with the community and the Node.js Foundation to improve module compatibility and evaluate Node.js performance.

Today, Microsoft released version 1.5 of the Node.js Tools for Windows IoT, bringing a number of important enhancements to the toolset. Basically, the console apps development model has been enhanced to better support ChakraCore, and developers can can now use Node.js within the context of the Universal Windows Platform.

If you’re a developer who understands these things and finds this somewhat esoteric blog post of interest, head on over and check out the details. The rest of us will just look forward to all of the nifty Windows IoT applications that you come up with.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.