How Microsoft fell in love with Javascript

Even Microsoft has embraced NodeJS, offering direct integrations into their Azure Platform, releasing a wealth of tutorials targeted at Node and they have even announced plans to fork the project and build their own version of Node powered by their Edge Javascript engine instead of Chrome’s V8. Node.js + Microsoft?! Yep, you heard us right. In this session, you’ll learn why Node.js is so exciting, why Microsoft cares, and – more importantly – what’s in it for you. Additionally, we’ll touch on many of Microsoft’s Node.js offerings and contributions, paying special attention to some of the exciting new developments in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, as well as glimpse into the future with Node Chakra’s time-travel debugging.