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 ...

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. NTVS is a free, open source extension ...

“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.

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.

One is to enable ChakraCore engine to use Node.js as an option via a shim. "This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js ...