As a long-time WebStorm user, I’ve never had consistent success getting code editor breakpoints to work for both server-side and client-side code, and recently submitted a ticket to try again to resolve it. The response I received was:
please could you check if debugging works for you when using any of Meteor template projects?
The bad news is that the plugin is not actively maintained. We are considering deprecating the Meteor support in the future versions and open-sourcing the plugin to allow community to continue its development. We don’t have the exact deprecation date yet but once we do, we’ll post the announcement in the WebStorm blog
Given that the Meteor plugin for WebStorm has been downloaded over 132,000 times, it seems like it’d be in Meteor’s best interest to take over the maintenance and development of this plugin? Any Community interest? Thoughts?
@paulishca , thanks for the link. Looking at it I still couldn’t quite tell if I could develop in JetBrains without their Meteor plugin. I don’t need breakpoints in JetBrains for client-side code - I use browser dev tools for that. Does it look to you like it would be possible to develop for Meteor in JetBrains without the Meteor plugin?
We talked about this deprecation note from IntelliJ on this Meteor Impact 2022 talk. On this talk we also showcase the Meteor Toolbox extension and how it works better (in our opinion) than the Webstorm plugin. It also has things that the Webstorm plugin doesn’t have (AFAIK) like support for different package directories.
@cormip If you want to try VS Code, the Meteor Toolbox extension supports integrated debugger on both client and server (with Cordova support planned!).
@vikr00001 It’s not required, but it makes your life easier. Also, they will be deprecating it so it will still work (if it already works for you), but you won’t receive new features and bug fixes. It will stay as it is.
Webstorm without the Meteor plugin - Meteor submodules/functions not recognized. Wasn’t bothered by anything else so I am not sure if missing the plugin affects other areas. I was ok to work for a couple of minutes without the plugin.
I emailed JetBrains about this and they replied that they have open-sourced the code for the plugin:
Hello Vik,
Sorry for the delay in responding! Thank you for your feedback. There are no plans to get rid of the Meteor plugin completely. By “discontinuing support,” we mean that we are no longer ready to invest actively in support for a specific technology. We won’t be fixing any long-standing bugs or non-critical issues. However, we’ll still fix critical problems should they arise. Also, we’ve open-sourced the Meteor plugin lately, so you and other community members are welcome to contribute to it.
@storyteller didn’t we talked about this in the past and that there were some shoutouts from JetBrains to make this plugin open source? Maybe we can get them to move this to the community instead of burying it.
I think everyone who is using JetBrains for meteor development should email to them. It seems they are not aware of the community in here. We are paying just for this extension.
I think I will switch to vs code. Is 
