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Whoa totally did not expect to see this hit HN!

dev/person-in-video here, happy to answer any questions we couldn't get to in the video :)

GitHub repo for those interested in playing around with the code. https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools

I use the VS node tools most every day. Thank you for work!
I'd like to see more TypeScript love - in docs/refs/samples, etc..
Thanks for all your hard work! I use Nodejs tools every day too and it makes my job easy.

Nothing else even comes close - not WebStorm, not Sublime and not Vim or some hodge-podge of other tools.

Would I run this in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code (basically I want to use this on my mac)
This is in Visual Studio (works in the free community edition), and we have some azure VM images ready for you to spin up if you want to give it a try without installing windows http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/04/24/node...

Code and VS are different products, codebases, Etc. But if you see a specific feature you'd love to have in code or v.v., let us know, as we're always considering ways to collaborate wherever it makes sense.

Is it suitable to develop nodejs addons?
The Node Tools extension is meant for developing apps built on Node, but VS has always had top notch support for C++ so there should be no reason why you can't use them together.

Check out this tutorial for developing a node addon in VS, and let me know if you have any ideas on how to improve the experience.

http://computer-vision-talks.com/articles/how-to-debug-nodej...