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Re: Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by polskibus »

blahbl4hblahtoo wrote: post #8

Wow, for an alpha release that's pretty impressive. Node seems to be really taking off at MS...parts of Azure are built with it...some really large parts of Azure. It's awesome that they didn't screw with Node either to make it run on Chakra...

Do you have a reference for Azure internals being written in node.js? I'd love to read about it.

Re: Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by abrichr »

gum_ina_package wrote: post #13

Seeing things like this gives me hope that one day Windows will be a first class os for web development. Now if I could just maximize the command prompt window....

ConEmu [1] has made CLI on Windows much more tolerable for me.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

Re: Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by smortaz »

polskibus wrote: post #12
blahbl4hblahtoo wrote: post #8

Wow, for an alpha release that's pretty impressive. Node seems to be really taking off at MS...parts of Azure are built with it...some really large parts of Azure. It's awesome that they didn't screw with Node either to make it run on Chakra...

Do you have a reference for Azure internals being written in node.js? I'd love to read about it.

i'll try to find out. top my head i know the azure node sdk is all node (obviously...), all the cross-plat commands/utils are node, skype, yammer, bing (?), ... all use node to various extents.

some info: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/ https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-node https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-tools-xplat

Re: Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by fro »

Seems like overkill. Part of why Node is great and so easy to get started with is that all you need is a browser, a text editor, and the terminal. I suppose for people that already use VS this is good, but maybe we should encourage them to write Node apps outside of that environment instead of shoving Node into a giant IDE.

Re: Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by int_19h »

fro wrote: post #19

Seems like overkill. Part of why Node is great and so easy to get started with is that all you need is a browser, a text editor, and the terminal. I suppose for people that already use VS this is good, but maybe we should encourage them to write Node apps outside of that environment instead of shoving Node into a giant IDE.

There's more to development than a text editor, though. Sometimes you do want debugging. And maybe you want syntax highlighting in your REPL. And, perhaps, you'd like some profiling to figure out how to make your Node app run faster.
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