I am starting the development of a browser-based desktop application (HTML + JavaScript) with no web server involved. It will be a single static HTML file using FileApi for its input and BlobUrls for output.
I consider using Visual Studio Community as the IDE for that development, but I can’t find the right project template to use.
My wish-list is:
- Support for basic front-end languages: JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
- Refactoring tools spanning several languages and files
(like renaming a JavaScript object or a
classattribute). - JavaScript debugging within the IDE, with connection to several browsers.
- No server (not even
localhost) required. - Support for JavaScript build tools (bundle, minify, … but no transpiler)
- Git Support.
Is this available?
Visual Studio has support for this but only when using TypeScript it seems. I've struggled with the same problem a long time ago. What I did was create an ASP.NET application but then I didn't use any Web Forms pages, I just used normal HTML pages and JavaScript.
I would recommend just switching over to Visual Studio Code, which provides everything on your wish-list and has a lot more customization than Visual Studio Community.
http://code.visualstudio.com