If you are considering to develop in nodejs, you should really try Sublime Text Editor 2 with the follwing build setup to let you  easly build your node projects.
Sublime Text Editor 2 has a really customizable build system which lets you personalize the way you build your projects.  If you configurate it correctly, you will be able to launch your node,js applications just pressing [Ctrl] + [B]. 

1. run Sublime Text Editor
2. Under Tools > Build System > press New Build System...
3. Paste this:
   {
     "cmd": ["nodeBuild", "$file"],
     "selector" : "source.js",
      "path" : "/home/myoArch/Bin"
   }
   Please note that  /home/myoArch/Bin is just my path where I personally prefere to store my sh scripts. You should use /usr/lib or whatever you want. 
4. Press [Ctrl] + [S] to save the file and name it Node. This operation creates a new file under: 
   /home/myoArch/.config/sublime-text-2/Packages/User/Node.sublime-build
5. Create a new file under /home/myoArch/Bin and name it nodeBuild. This is going to be our launcher script.
6. Open the file with your editor
7. Paste this:
        #!/bin/sh
        /usr/bin/killall node
        /usr/bin/node $1
   and save the file.
   Please note again that /usr/bin/node is my path where I have installed the node executable. Always use your paths, not mines!
   As you can see, in this script, I always kill all Node istances that are running before launching a new one, In this way  Ican just press [Ctrl] + [B] to re run my application.
8. At the last point, just make the file runnable: chmod +x nodeBuild

There you go.. Now you can set up your Build System as Node into Sublime Text Editor and run your node application by pressing [Ctrl] + [B].