Is there a way to open the Console window on Node.js tools for Visual Studio?

Question

I just downloaded the Node.js tools for Visual Studio and I can't find a way to open a Console window from inside VS.

It's useful to trigger npm commands like install, run build...

I know I could do it from the outside but I miss how easy it is in WebStorm, for instance.

Answer 1

You can run npm from the interactive node.js window using the .npm command.

Or you can right-click on the node.js project and chose "Open Command Prompt Here" to open a console window to run npm.

Or you can right click on the npm node in the project and use the gui tool for managing packages.

The NTVS team has a video where they talk about the npm support:

And there's also a page on the npm support in the NTVS documentation.