Node.js development in Visual Studio O_o

[Jackolantern]

I just saw this. It is still in a fairly early phase, but I am hearing that it already has Intellisense better than WebStorm. Interesting stuff, and definitely something to keep an eye on for people who use node and who have VS.

[Script47]

This is actually quite interesting, out of curiosity are there any actual IDE's out there for Node.JS?

[a_bertrand]

That's actually quite cool, as WebStorm do have some issues I would love to have fixed. If I could work just with Visual Studio, I think I would be more than happy.

[hallsofvallhalla]

wahoo! This is awesome!

[Jackolantern]

This is actually quite interesting, out of curiosity are there any actual IDE's out there for Node.JS?

Just WebStorm. And it is pretty cool, but yeah, it does have a few issues. I am fine with using WebStorm, because it does fulfill the need, but it could be better. I will definitely be keeping an eye on this (although I won't be downloading the alpha for fear it will make VS unstable, which I use for other development).

[Script47]

This is actually quite interesting, out of curiosity are there any actual IDE's out there for Node.JS?

Just WebStorm. And it is pretty cool, but yeah, it does have a few issues. I am fine with using WebStorm, because it does fulfill the need, but it could be better. I will definitely be keeping an eye on this (although I won't be downloading the alpha for fear it will make VS unstable, which I use for other development).

Ah right, I use Webstorm for my JS but never knew it was for Node.JS too.

[Jackolantern]

It is quickly becoming a node-centric IDE, and it really does work quite well for it.

[Script47]

It's made for JS right, so if you want to be able to code in Node.JS do you need to install a plugin or does it already have it all?

[Jackolantern]

It already has it all out-of-the-box. You can of course use WebStorm for client-side JS, the last few updates of WebStorm have definitely made it seem like it is moving towards being a node IDE.

[a_bertrand]

My node.js code is pretty small compared to the client side, and webstorm certainly do help writing code for the client part, but it's far from being perfect. Code completion is at best a good guess, sure having such lousy typing like in Javascript doesn't help, but still it's not what I would love to have. Also I found quite some bugs too. Still, so far it is the best JS IDE I used. I didn't upgraded to the latest VS so I can't say how VS 2013 handle JS now, but with 2010 it's really primitive.