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…