Which editor and debugger for typescript

Question

I am working on a nodejs project in which all code is written in typescript. It follows a microservice pattern (and each microservice is an independent project) hence lot of projects needs to be opened and debugged at the same time.

I tried webstorm and visual studio (with NTVS) but not satisified with both of them. Webstorm ignores many build errors (very important as those will fail during CI) and not as good as visual studio in intellisense and ease of use. On the other hand, Visualstudio is not as fast as I want. Also I am tied to windows and the filename length problem in node_modules is very frequent and annoying.

Others (atom, VSCode) doesn't have typescript debug support (or am I missing something?).

Can you please share your experience? Also I was wondering which editor google developers might be using to develop angular 2 :)

Answer 1

I have been working on a TypeScript project for 1.5 years now and am quite happy with using Visual Studio because we used .NET for back-end stuffs. For myself I consider the speed as "Ok", it is not that good - but the other stuffs e.g. intellisense is what we really like. I also personally think that as a "son" of Microsoft, TypeScript will get the best support from its "cousin" - Visual Studio.

However if you are a Eclipse person, you may be interested in this TypEcs (http://typecsdev.com/). There was also a post by Steve Fenton talking about TypeScript IDEs you may be interested (https://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Blog/Date/201409/Blog/Which-TypeScript-IDE/), he listed a few of the popular ones with a few sentences of comments, including Atom and the atom-typescript extension.