Sluggishness with WebStorm and Meteor?

Question

So, I'm working on a Mac Mini, using WebStorm to fuss with Meteor apps. I'm finding that WebStorm tends to get sluggish, and is constantly trying to index things. I have 4 gigs of RAM, of which 791M seem to be allocated to WebStorm at any one time. My disk drive is 500GB, and I make sure there's always at least 20% to 30% free space.

So, a few questions... is it Meteor's bundle process that's causing WebStorm to do the indexing? Is there any way to optimize the indexing? Make it run less frequently? Ignore the .meteor directory, perhaps? Is 20% of available RAM an appropriate amount to allocate to WebStorm for Meteor development? Are there any other things that people can recommend to optimize WebStorm so it's not so sluggish?

Thanks in advance for any recommendations!

Answer 1

As @Martin said - exclude the directories where Meteor stores it compiled files: .meteor\local and .meteor\meteorite (when using meteorite).

To have Meteor suggestions / ... add the Meteor source as an external library: /usr/lib/meteor/packages/. I'm using PhpStorm as well and add the path to the PHP include path (doesn't matter it's not a PHP-library).

When adding it as a JavaScript Library in the project settings the directory structure gets lost and you have to repeat this when upgrading meteor.

Answer 2

I'm using PHPStoem for my meteor development and I am having the same issue as you do. I guess the engine in PHPStorm is identical to WebStorm...

I'm unsure if increasing the amount of RAM available to the IDE actually will have any effect. The issue is related to the IDE re-indexing the folder-tree whenever changes are made to any file(s) in the tree. When meteor is running and changes is made to a file, meteor is bundling the whole application into the .meteor folder why the tree is re-indexed.

I haven't tried it out yet, but I guess what actually will help is to add the .meteor-folder to the ignore list so it wont be re-indexed every time a file-change happens.