With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE.

That may be changing now, however. Microsoft today launched its Node.js Tools for Visual Studio in alpha, which now allows developers to edit, and debug node.js code right in Microsoft’s popular ...

“This marks the next major milestone with the NTVS open-source plugin, allowing developers to turn Visual Studio 2012/2013 into a Node.js IDE to build fast, scalable applications using JavaScript.

Microsoft is working on a new debugger for Node.js and Chrome, which is installed by default for insiders and can also be installed from the Visual Studio marketplace.

For Angular, Vue, React and more, just type a few keystrokes to quickly insert a small block of code functionality to speed up your JavaScript development in VS Code.

He noted that Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and available on CodePlex. As of right now, NTVS isn't listed as a project on the new .NET Foundation ...