I'm a huge fan of Don Jayamanne. He also made the original python extension for vscode.

I always wondered why no one made a better node.js repl. I wish there was something like ipython for nodejs.

There's a jupyter kernel for node, several of them actually. https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels This is probably the one you want to check out: https://github.com/n-riesco/ijavascript There's one built specifically for typescript evaluation too.