WebStorm 9 - Meteor Support
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as the official walkthrough for running and debugging Meteor apps in WebStorm, both in answers and in questions from people following along.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2014 to 2015.
What it is
A short JetBrains product demo of the Meteor plugin in WebStorm 9, showing how to create a Meteor run/debug configuration and debug server-side code from the IDE. The same plugin is noted as available in IntelliJ IDEA 14, PhpStorm 8, RubyMine 7 and PyCharm 4.
What people said
Recommends Dan Dascalescu · 2014-02 · Stack Overflow · on “How can I debug my Meteor app using the WebStorm IDE?”
WebStorm is the only IDE with native support for debugging Meteor server code - check this video [this video] . Even on Windows, debugging is very simple: WebStorm 9+ Go to Run --> Debug --> Edit configurations... , click the plus sign, click "Meteor". You can add environment variable like ROOT_URL if you need to. WebStorm older than 9 This answer is kept only for historical purposes. You should upgrade WebStorm. On older WebStorms, you used to have to create a Node.js debugging configuration. on the server, export the environment variable NODE_OPTIONS=--debug=47977 . For instance, NODE_OPTIONS=--debug=47977 meteor # Linux/Mac set NODE_OPTIONS=--debug=47977 & meteor` # Windows create a WebStorm/P
Recommends foobarbecue · 2015-01 · Stack Overflow · on “How can I debug my Meteor app using the WebStorm IDE?”
The other answers are now out of date. Don't add a Node.js debug configuration as described above, or bother with spyjs. If you're using Webstorm 9.0, it's as simple as going to Run --> Debug --> Edit configurations... , click the plus, click "Meteor". WebStorm may also ask you to install a browser add-on, but that's just for client-side debugging; just add a breakpoint in the server-side code and you'll see it works out of the box. JetBrains have updated the video which was linked to [this video] in Dan Dascalescu's answer above, and it shows you the process I just described.
Cites jadus · 2014-09 · Stack Overflow · on “What is the "Update for Meteor client-side source files is not available" message in webstorm?”
Trying to run/debug a meteor JS app with the new webstorm 9 (with meteor support) I'm following this tutorial : [this video] If I click on run, chrome is launched and my app is running. But I get this message on the event log : Update for Meteor client-side source files is not available And if I change something in a file (js, css or html) nothing is changing on my app on chrome. I have to manually stop and run again to see my changes. Seems to work on the video though...
Cites user1048175 · 2014-11 · Stack Overflow · on “Webstorm and Meteor - Run and Debug in Webstorm greyed out?”
When I follow this video exactly [this video] , the debug and run buttons in the Webstorm toolbar are greyed out which means I can't use the new debug features of Webstorm 9 - does anyone have any ideas where I am going wrong? I did the exact same setup on another Mac and it works fine. This Mac did run Webstorm EAP 9 but I deleted it and fresh installed 9.0.1.
Cites Dan Dascalescu · 2015-01 · Stack Overflow · on “How can I debug my Meteor app using the WebStorm IDE?”
WebStorm has had Meteor support [this video] for a few months now. @BenjaminRH, can you please remove the old comment? Thanks!