But, for example, NTVS can take the output from the V8 profiler and display it using the Visual Studio Profiler Reporting Tools. It's node, it runs node.exe, it uses the V8 debugger, it uses the V8 profiler because that's what people use. “One of the things that's impressed me about the way they integrated node.js into Visual Studio was that they didn't try to recreate or re-do things that already worked well.

This video is an introduction to using it: NTVS was developed by the same team that brought you PTVS with help from friends like Bart Read from Red Gate (he did the npm GUI), and Dmitry Tretyakov from Clickberry for several debugger fixes & features. At the same time the PTVS team was also working on node.js integration, so they all joined forces and made NTVS a community project. It is currently available in an alpha version, that can be downloaded from Codeplex.Īccording to Scott Hanselman's blog, the history of its development is that some node.js enthusiasts had forked PTVS and begun some spikes of node tools for VS. The plug-in, can be used with Visual Studio 20, comes with a graphical interface for Node's NPM package manager, so you can download Node libraries from the NPM repository from within Visual Studio. It also supports publishing to Azure Web Sites and Cloud Service. Node.js Tools for Visual Studio supports editing with IntelliSense, debugging locally and remotely, profiling and deployment of Node.js projects. Microsoft has released NTVS, a plug-in for Visual Studio that lets you program Node.js within the Visual Studio IDE.

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