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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.