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I never type my dependencies in directly, but if I did, I’d certainly come to rely on it. If you begin typing a dependency directly into the package.json, it gives you some Intellisense with an under-the-covers search of the npm repository, and it even helps you with the version…
It actually works pretty slick too showing you all of your global modules, all of the modules that are installed, and visually differentiating the packages that have been added to your package.json file. I personally never use this, but for some people it’s just your kind of thing. Some people like to do things the graphic way. This is going to give you a graphic way of managing your npm packages. Now, when Visual Studio finished with our bidding, let’s take a look at what we’ve got…įirst of all, perhaps the simplest Hello World app in the world :) Next, notice the npm folder in the project. The rest are web applications for creating node apps on the server.Īs per usual, give your project a name and location and _OK_ away. For what we’re dealing with - writing Node.js for devices - the Blank Node.js Console Application will suffice. There are a number of projects to choose from. Creating a New ProjectĬreating a project using Node.js in Visual Studio begins like any other project type - with the File | New Project dialog… Again, the download is assumedly self-explanatory. Go there and click the gigantic, unmistakable DOWNLOAD button. The Node.js Tools for Visual Studio Installing the Tools The next version of Visual Studio is Visual Studio 2015 and there’s pretty good support for it already (including a working version of the Node.js Tools), so if you want to be a trailblazer at work, go for it. Do you want to play with Lightswitch? Windows Phone? Just check the boxes. Installation is pretty straight-forward, and I won’t include a screenshot series, but one decision you will have to make is which features of the product to install. So click the download button under Visual Studio the IDE and (at least at the time of this writing) you’ll get a direct link to the Visual Studio Community 2013 package. Visual Studio is the IDE, but it’s also the ALM tools for taking any size projects from conception to completion with any size group of developers. To download Visual Studio, start at, but know that sort of has two meanings right now. VS is intuitive, intelligent, and has a lot of Microsoft and community support behind it.
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The Community edition is essentially the existing Professional edition, and facilitates a huge array of development scenarios. In case you missed the announcement in November, Visual Studio Community edition is now free. If you want to skip all the rhetoric and just download the reference project, I’ll understand. “edref” stands for Edison Reference project and is intended to get you started quickly with an Intel Edison project in Visual Studio. That’s an impressive list, and we’ll take a look at a few of these features in this post.Ĭloser to the end of this post, I’ll tell you about my edref project. It runs node behind the scenes, so it offer the following…
Visual Studio, once you add the free Node.js Tools for Visual Studio plugin, happens to be pretty great at working with Node.js projects.
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In this post, we’ll take a look at writing code for it using Visual Studio.
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And in case you got here directly, I created a full index of my Edison posts to help you find what you need.
#NODE JS TOOLS FOR VISUAL STUDIO 2012 HOW TO#
In previous blog posts, I explained how to setup your Intel Edison and how to start writing code for it.