Writing code can be a complex job — you need to be precise, make as few mistakes as possible, prepare for failure, and, of course, get the job done. Tools such as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are important, because they can help in all of these tasks, and therefore, choosing the right one is a crucial decision in a project's life.

Just as the technologies themselves have been growing and maturing, so have the full-stack development tools. However, it is not enough for them to be amazing and simply exist—as a professional full-stack developer, it is your job to know these tools from top to bottom, and use them accordingly.

In this chapter, we will prepare our work environment, and install the following necessary applications and tools for full-stack development with the ASP.NET Core and JavaScript frameworks:

• Visual Studio
• Node.js and npm
• TypeScript
• Google Chrome
• Fiddler