How common is the use of Server-Side Javascript?

[davej]

Who uses it and why?

 

[justsomeguy]

I don't know how common it is, but one appeal is that people can write client-side and server-side code in the same language and even reuse many of the functions.

[thescientist]

Since it is relatively new on the scene it probably hasn't been widely adopted/deplyoed yet, at least probably not on an enterprise level for production environments. Our company has started using it as part of our local development stack for things like routing (similar to using a PHP proxy for reaching our dev env) and dependency management.

 

I think it's biggest appeal is that is a paradigm shift from how current web servers handle requests/responses; favoring an event-loop rather than a a queue.

[davej]

Well, what got me thinking about it are the various warnings about eval() being a "security risk." That makes no sense for the client, so I guess they must be talking about the server-side.

[justsomeguy]

Eval on the client is only a risk to your users if your site is compromised in another way. If an attacker can inject code that you eval, then that's a problem, but it's only a problem if the attacker can already inject code.