The new version of Node-ChakraCore is now available from Microsoft and it's based on Node.js 8 and fully supports the next-generation Node API. It also touts full cross-platform desktop support.
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Microsoft is encouraging developers to build cross-platform applications using ChakraCore - a vital element of the Chakra JavaScript engine and UWP - by bringing it to OS X and Linux.
Just a week after open-sourcing ChakraCore, Microsoft has announced the achievement of a major milestone which would allow Node.js to work with its JavaScript engine.
In just over a month after initial the announcement at JSConf US, Microsoft has open-sourced a bit part of the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine in the form of ChakraCore on GitHub.
Microsoft has announced that it will be open sourcing the core components of the Chakra JavaScript engine and releasing it on GitHub next month, for developers to improve and build upon.
