Another note to self post. When writing node.js projects in WebStorm one of the major upsides is the debugging story. To hook that up you just create a configuration for it. One annoying thing I’ve encountered is that it does not restart the server/app after a crach or a save of the code-files.

In the command-line I’ve done this using nodemon and supervisor. I tend to prefer nodemon, so below I will show this using nodemon but it should work without problems using supervisor or any simular tool.

First of all install nodemon globally

npm install nodemon -g

Then enter WebStorm, open your node.js project and:

1. Hit the configuration menu to edit configuration if you don’t have one otherwise chose you’re existing config
2. If you don’t have a config, create it using the plus (+) sign
3. Change the path from node to nodemon

And Bob’s you’re uncle!

UPDATE 2014-06-29

That setup did not work as well as I hope, so I changed it around a little. Seems to work better: