Microsoft is working on a new debugger for Node.js and Chrome, which is installed by default for insiders and can also be installed from the Visual Studio marketplace.

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.

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 ...

“This marks the next major milestone with the NTVS open-source plugin, allowing developers to turn Visual Studio 2012/2013 into a Node.js IDE to build fast, scalable applications using JavaScript.