Node.js is quickly becoming one of the most popular server-side development platforms. However, Microsoft has never been able to take full advantage of this tool on the Windows operating system to ...

A little bit about Node.js, it is a beautifully written cross-platform open-source JavaScript runtime environment built on Google’s Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js basically lets you code ...

With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE. NTVS is a free, open source extension for ...

Microsoft ’s approach to openness is continuing positively; from a software application development perspective at least. Naysayers will still argue that it’s too little, too late and that it is ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

As the company continues to court programmers developing on software stacks that aren't its own, Microsoft has released a plugin for Visual Studio that provides extensive support for Node.js within ...