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 ...

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.

According to the Microsoft Developer Network blog, “Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript.

And More There are plenty more code snippet packages to download for JavaScript, as the Visual Studio Marketplace lists 105 such offerings (just searching for "JavaScript") in the Snippets category ...

One is to enable ChakraCore engine to use Node.js as an option via a shim. "This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js ...

He noted that Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and available on CodePlex. As of right now, NTVS isn't listed as a project on the new .NET Foundation ...