![]() ![]() ![]() Microsoft is definitely changing its mindset and starting to open-source its projects. What the heck?! At first sight, it may seem contradicting, however, it was filmed this way to boast that VS Code works cross-platform, yes, even on Mac (it's actually built with Electron), and that Microsoft is finally supporting other platforms for its developer tools. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. What's even more peculiar is that the official introduction video on the main page of Visual Studio Code features a Microsoft engineer demonstrating the IDE on a Apple Macbook Pro, right beside a huge Microsoft logo. They recently released a new IDE called Visual Studio Code and it's basically a Visual Studio for the web, specifically tailored to JavaScript/TypeScript development, in both the server-side and client-side. Something very peculiar is happening in Microsoft. My next post in this series will show how to use the package management features and write unit tests.Visual Studio Code for Node.js Development Sep 27, 2015 You may need to press the reload buttonĪ new task window opens and your program runs.View -> Other Windows -> Task Runner Explorer.Modify the file by adding the script section as shown below and save.Now we’ll setup the package.json and the task runner to show Visual Studio’s support for npm scripts. Can see all the variables in the Locals window. Set a breakpoint (F9) in app.js at line one and press F5 again to run. A console should appear with the famous “Hello world” statementĪlready, you have a lot of features.Select Blank Node.js Console Application.File -> New Project -> Templates -> Other Languages -> JavaScript -> Node.js.This is the boilerplate project we’ll be using in my next post covering modern software development with Node and VS. Select and install the NPM Scripts Task Runner.Prepare at least an hour of time! It’s a huge tool but very worth it. For the uninitiated, installing Visual Studio is a big process. You have several choices of Visual Studio to choose from:įor this example, we’ll be using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. I hope you find the following tutorials helpful. ![]() Alternatively, you could be a Node developer who is struggling with existing IDEs. Please remember, this post targets C# developers who are learning Node.js who are comfortable in Visual Studio. Over the last year, Microsoft has put serious effort in to Visual Studio support Node. It truly is the standard by which all other IDEs are measured. I answer, because “Visual Studio is amazing”. Even so, when people always ask me why I develop using C# and Microsoft technologies even though I have a long Unix background. Parts of Microsoft development stack have their legacy warts. Visual Studio has always been the most mature IDE in the Windows ecosystem. It brings everything we’ve learned in the past 15 years of software development into one cohesive language: Rarely, do us long-toothed developers see anything truly new. I’ve seen many technologies and paradigms reborn (think of task runners… Make => Shell Scripts => Ant => NAnt => MSBuild => npm => Grunt => Gulp). I have been in software development even longer, over 2 decades. If you have known me for any length of time, you know that I’ve been in the. ![]()
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