Microsoft wants you to build for the cloud and has developed a free Node.js course to help learners on their journey.

Microsoft's tutorials also assist participants setting up a development environment with Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code editor, as well as installing Node.js as a JavaScript runtime.

Because its tutorials mix explanatory text with hands-on operations, I recommend keeping the Learn Azure environment in a separate browser instance from the tutorial text.

TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today. JavaScript poses certain challenges when ...