The Visual Studio team has turned out version 1.0 of its Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) after a year of development work on it. The tool can be best described as an extension of Visual Studio ...

The Node.js Tools for Visual Studio are available under the Apache open source license. Microsoft continues it to be an early alpha release, so it still has some rough edges, but the early reviews ...

But it is increasingly only the purists who are saying this. After a year of development, the firm this week announced the release of Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS 1.0).

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The Node.js Tools for Visual Studio is available under the Apache open source license. Microsoft continues to say that it is an alpha release and it still has some rough edges.