Microsoft has launched a new Node.js tool in Visual Studio (NTVS), currently in alpha, which now enables developers to edit and debug Node.js in the popular Microsoft IDE.

The Node.js Tools for Visual Studio are available under the Apache open source license. Microsoft continues it to be an early alpha release, so it still has some rough edges, but the early reviews ...

The tool can be best described as an extension of Visual Studio for building Node.js apps in JavaScript. In even simpler terms, it "turns Visual Studio into a Node.js IDE," said Sara Itani, a ...

“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.

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 ...