Why does nodejs debugger ignore breakpoints when it's run in npm configuration?

Question

I have a node.js code in WebStorm. I debug the code by using node.js configuration and it works fine.

However, once I run debug mode in npm configuration, WebStorm ignores the breakpoints. I tried to add the variables "--debug" and "--debug-brk" to 'Arguments' field and it still didn't solve the problem.

Answer 1

Please check out this tutorial: http://pavelpolyakov.com/2016/05/01/webstorm-npm-tasks-debug/ You need to add $NODE_DEBUG_OPTION in your npm script. Here's the original issue on the WebStorm tracker.