This might be a daft question, but...

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…

Mitchfarino

@strawberry-3-141 I saw you were online, so I’m shamelessly tagging you in my post in the hopes of some guidance :-(

strawberry 3.141

@Mitchfarino

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

    $.getJSON(this.url,
        function (data) {
            for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                var row = document.createElement("tr");
                var name = document.createElement("td");
                name.innerHTML = data[i].name;
                row.appendChild(name);
                table.appendChild(row);
            }
            wrapper.appendChild(table);
            return wrapper;
        });

but I’m pretty sure that this will not work, because the return is in an asynchronous callback, i would do a different structure call your url in an interval somewhere else and save your data into an module variable and call the updateDom function after a result, then in getDom you iterate over the data.

Mitchfarino

@strawberry-3.141 Thanks very much, I’ll have a play with it over the weekend and hopefully I get can something working

I’ve not done anything like this before really, so just jumping in and seeing what happens :-)