Visual Studio is one of the most mature IDEs available in the market. It greatly simplifies the task of writing your JavaScript code. Furthermore, the Dynamics 365 team implemented the Developer Tool Kit add-on for Visual Studio to help developers integrate Dynamics 365 with Visual Studio. The add-on helps you retrieve and deploy customizations from, and to, Dynamics 365. The only limitation with this combination is the lack of publishing capabilities from within Visual Studio.

Developers will still need to go to Dynamics 365 to publish their changes manually. Refer to Creating a solution using the Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit template recipe in Chapter 4, Server-Side Extensions for detail about the Developer Toolkit.