Node.js Tools 1.0 on GitHub and VMs Available

[zcdziura]

> With the start of a new season of Game of Thrones, folks are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what’s coming. Unlike the Khaleesi who seems to be going nowhere fast, Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) has made some moves recently.

Shots fired!

But really, excellent job on the release! Microsoft has been producing a lot lately, and that's awesome to see!

[djinn_and_tonic]

First, thanks so much for this, I love being in Visual Studio!

A few things I've noticed: - when typing '.then' (for promises) intellisense seems to think I want '.attach' and that means I need to hit Esc and type it out manually. What's up with that?

- Performance seems to degrade over time, and the IDE just gets sluggish.

- After I made intellisense -not- use the disk and instead go in-mem (.ntvs_analysis.dat was getting huge!) I have almost no intellisense for any custom modules I loaded. (Things like lodash still seem to work)

Many, many thanks on making Visual Studio once again my place to live in all day!

[mousetraps]

Dev here, happy to answer any questions.

GitHub link: https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools

[luisrudge]

This is awesome! Congratz on the release! I just watched the video on the home page and I'm really impressed. I'll take a serious look in it! Thanks!

[orand]

Exciting progress, and I'd love to use it, but the thing holding me back is lack of support for ES6 syntax. https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/77

[mousetraps]

Yep. That's definitely high priority. First we'll fix the squiggles in the editor and then we'll add intellisense...

Please comment so we can better prioritize the es6 feature work.

[gasping]

So what happened with io.js in the end? I can't keep up with the self-destruction of the industry, which should I be using, io.js or node?

[serve_yay]

They forked. There has been talk of reconciliation but it seems to me that many of the iojs folks are not really on-board with the idea. As far as which to use, take it from some guy on the internet, I say use iojs.

[mattkrea]

Most likely they will merge back with Node.js within a few releases.

[zura]

I wish more docs/books/tutorials were available for Node.js with TypeScript.

[DanRosenwasser]

Hey, TypeScript dev here, what can we do to make your life easier? Y'know, apart from a million bucks.

What kinds of gaps of knowledge do you feel there are in using the two together?