Debugging the server- and the client-side code
Last modified: 10 August 2022note
With IntelliJ IDEA, you can debug the server-side code of a Node.js application together with its client-side JavaScript code. To do that, you need to create a separate JavaScript Debug configuration in addition to the Node.js configuration and run these two configurations together. You can do that in two ways:
Create a JavaScript Debug configuration from the Edit Configurations dialog () and then click
to start it, see Debugging an application running on an external web server for details.
Create a JavaScript Debug configuration from the Live Edit tab when creating or editing a Node.js configuration. In this case, the JavaScript Debug configuration will start automatically every time you start the Node.js configuration.