Microsoft wants you to build for the cloud and has developed a free Node.js course to help learners on their journey.

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. NTVS is a free, open source extension ...

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio in action. Credit: Microsoft Though still only an "alpha" release, the development experience looks remarkably complete already.

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 ...