I’ve been digging through node.js code more over the last few weeks. Coming up to speed on JavaScript idioms and best practices (and a few things that feel like worst practices) . Looking at IDE options to streamline things as node has less structure to it than the languages I’m used to and emacs doesn’t help much on that front.

• Visual Studio 2015 has some node support but at first look it doesn’t seem to do the sorts of things for JavaScript that it does for C# or C++. It is also terribly slow.
• There are eclipse based options that I’ve seen. I’ve downloaded a  copy of one option (Nodeclipse) but haven’t tried playing with it much yet.
• Folks at work use Sublime Text and seem moderately happy with it…not sure that it provides too much more than emacs does though.
• There’s another free editor that came up called Cloud9 that I’ll probably take a look at. Actually, now that I see their terms, nope…it would have to be something radically wonderful for $20 a month for personal use.
• WebStorm looks potentially interesting. It seems to get good reviews. It is a paid product but for personal use might be workable and if it looked sufficiently valuable might be worth swinging a license for it at work.

Much more to learn here…got to dig out my copy of Effective JavaScript when I get home and read through it again…I suspect that I’ll take away more from this reading now that I’ve been struggling with the stuff for a while.