As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

React Standard Style Code Snippets (source: Visual Studio Marketplace) It includes 51 snippets, 29 of which are devoted to prop types. For example, the trigger "rccp [TAB key]" brings up a class ...

Studio enables technical and non-technical users to build custom websites with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that writes React code, making it much easier for web teams to collaborate.

In another Microsoft embrace of competitive technologies, the Visual Studio Mobile Center -- serving as "mission control" for mobile apps -- now supports code signing of React Native apps via its new ...