Develop nodejs with visual studio 2010

Question

Is it possible to develop NodeJS applications with VS2010. I\'m talking plain ol\' Javascript, not Azure or any fancy stuff like that. I just want to use VS2010 as the Javascrip

Answer 1

I was using VS for Node development and it was just a very poor experience. That said, simply create an Empty Website project. Which is about as empty as a project can be in VS... personally, I wish VS had support for a "non-compiled" or "script" project, to hold misc files, or outside scripts that aren't the purview of VS. That aside you may want to try out the typescript plugins for VS, as they add a lot of useful intellisense support, for what it's worth.

That said, you may want to give another editor a chance, if you don't need integrated source control you might want to look at WebMatrix2 (free) from MS, there's a plugin that makes node-inspector debugging transparent. Personally, I've been using JetBrains WebStorm (not too pricey) and loving it.