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Is there a good javascript plugin for visual studio?

Asked 2009-10-26T20:37:48.917
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I think that Visual Studio's biggest let down is the Javascript editor. I have been told to use Aptana as an editor for my javascript files, but I would prefer to stick with visual studio if possible.

I have read other similar plugin posts, but none focus specifically on Javascript.

VS2010 may offer some improvements, but will they be up to Apatana standards? I have briefly tested the beta, but I'm not overly impressed.

Is there anything out there that will bring Javascript closer to c# development? Considering the wide spread use of Javascript I think there must be something....... I hope! :)

Many thanks in advance... this is something that has always bugged me!

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I'd really like to recommend Webstorm. It does not! treat your JS as text files.

Its a full blown JS editor and has become my favourite JS editor working in parallel with VS to handle my server side stuff.

  • WS has actual object intellisense across JS files. That means when I press . (dot) it shows me the functions on that objects, even if its located physically in another file.

  • It will recognize my objects (or their type if you will) created in other JS files referred to in the file I'm working on.

  • I have 'Find usages' on JS functions

  • I have 'find all references' on JS object / function / class / variable or whatever you want to search on. In the end its all objects but Webstorm knows this.

  • If I change the short/cut to F12, I can press F12 on my function call and it will jump to the implementation of that JS functon. Even if its located in another file.

  • Ofc. you have code folding and colouring, extract method and other neat code re factoring, overview creating tools.

Oh. And by the way. I'd like to kill off a rumour going around in the cloud on forums I come across from time to time, looking for better ways to handle JS.

reSharper DO NOT SUPPORT JAVASCRIPT! A little piece of me dies every time I read some guy repeating what he saw on the reSharper site. It may have a some poor intellisense and some low level syntax check, but that has nothing to do with support. Notepad++ supports JS better than VS in my opinion.

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answered 2011-06-10T08:13:59.087

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