Also in Visual Studio Code 1.66, the built-in CSS extension now ships with a code formatter, implemented by the js-beautify library, that works with CSS, LESS, and CSS.

News JavaScript IntelliSense Disabled in Visual Studio Code 1.7.1 Just as the Visual Studio team started rolling out the October 2016 Build version 1.7 this week, the team did an about-face with an ...

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript ...

Of all these characteristics, it's JavaScript's lack of type safety coupled with not having a compiler fail in the capacity to verify intent. That is, of course, if you don't have unit tests. Unit ...

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 ...

“Visual Studio Code is a neat tool and something they totally needed to do,” said Miguel de Icaza, chief technology officer at Xamarin, a close Microsoft partner in the tools space.

If you want to give them a try, Hanselman’s blog post also features a brief walk-through of editing (and running) the Node.js-based Ghost blogging platform’s source code in Visual Studio.

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

Microsoft intends to make JavaScript development easier in Visual Studio 11 by significantly enhancing Intellisense, debugging support, editor functionality, and more.