This might be a daft question, but...

[KirAsh4]

I use Notepad++, it does the job for me. However, I have other editors that I use for heavier tasks, like when I’m writing C/C++ code. For a peek at my crazy dev environment, read this post: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/265/my-setup-or-how-crazy-i-am

[alexyak]

Visual Studio Code rocks! It’s relatively new, but it’s very lightweight, run on any platform, includes intellisense and bunch of addins. Allows you debugging in the node.js…

[paviro]

If you happen to have a Mac CodeRunner is amazing! It can compile and execute a lot of different programming languages and is really fast. Atom (Windows, Linux, Mac) is also really nice but I quite often find myself using CodeRunner instead because Atom needs so much CPU and is also a lot slower compared.

[Mitchfarino]

Can I use Visual Studio?

What type of project would I create?

[alexyak]

@Mitchfarino Most certainly you should be able to. There are node.js specific projects. You just need to install tools:
https://beta.visualstudio.com/vs/node-js/

[Mitchfarino]

Thanks @alexyak , much appreciated!

[Mitchfarino]

Sorry, again

Which of these projects would be the correct one?!

[alexyak]

@Mitchfarino Sorry, I’ve not tried this yet myself, but have you tried to use this option that you have selected: “From Existing Node.js code”?

[Mitchfarino]

@alexyak Sorted, I tried that and imported an existing module

Now I just to figure out what I’m doing now! :)

[Mitchfarino]

OK, I’m up and running, but I’m not sure how to parse my JSON result in to html.

I have this, but don’t know whether it’s correct

I just want to see if I can list the names from the results of my GET request

getDom: function () {
    var wrapper = document.createElement("div");

    $.getJSON(this.url,
        function (data) {
            var tr;
            for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                tr = $('<tr/>');
                tr.append("<td>" + data[i].name + "</td>");

                $('table').append(tr);
            }
            wrapper.append("<td>" + data[i].name + "</td>");
        });
    return wrapper;

I’d like to note, this is all completely new to me, so I’m trying to learn as I go…