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 ...

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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio in action. Credit: Microsoft Though still only an "alpha" release, the development experience looks remarkably complete already.

Microsoft has updated its Node.js Tools for Visual Studio package, improving IntelliSense ease-of-coding capabilities and enhancing performance, debugging, and unit testing.