Meteor 1.6 debugging with webstorm or IntelliJ

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Just in case someone else finds this useful, we have meteor 1.6 debugging working nicely in WebStorm and IntelliJ.

Configuring:

  1. Create a meteor run profile with the normal options for the project ( --settings etc), but add a --inspect-brk parameter.

    6_run_profile
    6_run_profile1656×708 66.7 KB

  2. Create a separate run “Chromium Remote Debug” profile. Change the port number to 9229 .

    6_debug_profile
    6_debug_profile1052×448 42.4 KB

Running:

  1. Run the meteor run profile first (don’t choose debug; choose to run it).
  2. Debug the Chromium Remote Debug profile.
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You can now use debug button since that will let you use the ide to debug things, as long as you pass --inspect (default being inspect-brk).

The remote chromium I suppose is attach to node/chrome, which doesn’t work for me even with installed extension, and help article isn’t helpful.

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I just use a normal meteor run profile, like the top image in the original post. I get server breakpoints in WebStorm and client breakpoints in Chrome.