Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. Now if I could just maximize the command prompt window....

This is a BIG step to make me switch to Windows. Debugging Node.js just like C# is really awesome (no brainer breakpoints and inspection: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_1_UqUDx2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W_1_UqUDx2s</a>).<p>This plus a decent shell would definitely make me switch (I hate PowerShell).

I&#x27;m a big fan of Python Tools for Visual Studio (<a href="https://pytools.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pytools.codeplex.com&#x2F;</a>). Assuming Njs4VS lives up to it&#x27;s predecessor, it could be a truly wonderful tool.

I like this. I smuggled Node into our company to suplant a very difficult to test&#x2F;debug WCF process and it&#x27;s slowly been creeping out into bigger use cases. I&#x27;ve tried using VS for managing my Node scripts but it just wasn&#x27;t a very elegant fit given VS&#x27;s concept of projects and solutions so I kept falling back to Sublime. I&#x27;m excited to see if I can finally maintain just a single editor for both my .NET and Node code.

thanks ambuj for submitting. i work on the team &amp; will be around for a couple of hours in case folks have any questions. would love to hear your feedback... cheers.

This is the kind of thing that makes me want to switch back to Windows.<p>I like VS since I&#x27;ve been using it to develop a C# app these last two months. I miss a lot of things because I&#x27;m too deep in CLI usage (like git...help me...), but had I had it when I tried to play with Ruby on Windows 7 three years ago and discovered the pain of the windows CLI, maybe I would&#x27;ve stayed there.<p>These Node.js tools are especially great. I spend a lot of time on CLI running my app, installing a module, watching my dev logs,... I couldn&#x27;t ever imagine anyone using node.js on windows. Now I can and it looks great.

For Mac or Linux noders who would prefer an IDE to a simple editor + command line tools, IntelliJ with the Node plugin is pretty good. It has code assist and debugging built in, and IntelliJ is just generally a very good IDE.<p>Edit: WebStorm from the same company (JetBrains) is cheaper if you don&#x27;t need all the java tools support.

I&#x27;ll admit I&#x27;m one of those who whined about nodeJS targeting Windows. Windows is starting to look more and more like a first-tier nodeJS platform with help from Microsoft! Can&#x27;t wait to try this out.<p>How about a little golang love in Visual Studio?

Very nice, will help Node break into the enterprise.

This looks really cool. Is there a way to have Node.js tools work with TypeScript?

Have fun using npm with MAX_PATH.

I wonder how this compares to the Visual Node[1] plugin by Redgate.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.visualnode.info/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualnode.info&#x2F;</a>

Seems like overkill. Part of why Node is great and so easy to get started with is that all you need is a browser, a text editor, and the terminal. I suppose for people that already use VS this is good, but maybe we should encourage them to write Node apps outside of that environment instead of shoving Node into a giant IDE.

This is great, I&#x27;ve been playing around with node and express recently and just using notepad++, I&#x27;ll be integrating it into my VS environment when I get home

Great, I wonder when will they release the standalone version!

Here&#x27;s a nickel, kid. Get yourself a real OS.

This seems useful for the profiling alone.

Wow, for an alpha release that&#x27;s pretty impressive. Node seems to be really taking off at MS...parts of Azure are built with it...some really large parts of Azure.<p>It&#x27;s awesome that they didn&#x27;t screw with Node either to make it run on Chakra...

nooooooooo<p>(downvote me)