debugger suddenly stopped working in webstorm project

Question

My webstorm ide won't stop on breakpoints in my existing Node.js project anymore.

It seems to work fine when I create a new webstorm node.js express project and set a debug point.

For example, for a very simple test, I create a file in my existing project called test.js:

var name = 'bob';
console.log(name);

create a run/debug configuration

Name:test
Path to Node:/usr/local/bin/node
workding directory: Path to my directory
Path to Node App JS file: test.js

I set a break point to line 1 which never gets hit, even though the program runs fine. How can I get the debugger to hit breakpoints again on this project.

Output

/usr/local/bin/node --debug-brk=64597 test.js
debugger listening on port 64597
bob

Process finished with exit code 0

The same project copied into another directory works fine in the debugger. However if I keep it in the same directory, even if I delete the .idea folder and recreate the debug configuration from scratch it won't attach to the debugger.

I was playing around with JSTestDriver settings earlier.. could that have affected things and continued to affect things even though the .idea folder was deleted?

Answer 1

The same thing happened to me as well. I finally rebooted my machine and Webstorm started hitting breakpoints again. It's not a great answer, but at least it worked.

Answer 2

Rename (delete) the .idea folder from the root of your project and try again.