Spy-js tool window

The tool window is available only when the Spy-js plugin is enabled. The Spy-js plugin is bundled with WebStorm and activated by default. If the plugin is disabled, enable it on the Installed tab of the Settings/Preferences | Plugins page, as described in Managing plugins.

The tool window opens when you launch a run configuration of the type Spy-js or Spy-js for Node.js. As soon as the Spy-js tool captures an event, it shows the event itself, its details, and stack-traces. By clicking an event, you can open the trace file, which is a prettified source file with the script that the event launched.

The tool window consists of a common toolbar and two tabs with panes:

Toolbar

Item	Tooltip and shortcut	Description
	Rerun Ctrl+F5	Click this button to stop the current trace session and run it again. When the session is canceled externally by clicking , the button toggles to . Note that after the session restarts, you have to refresh the traced page in the browser to start capturing events.
	Rerun F9	This button substitutes for if the previous trace session was canceled externally by clicking . Click to initiate a new session. Note that after the session restarts, you have to refresh the traced page in the browser to start capturing events.
	Stop Ctrl+F2	Click this button to terminate the current process externally by means of the standard shutdown script. Clicking the button once invokes soft kill allowing the application to catch the SIGINT event and perform graceful termination (on Windows, the Ctrl+C event is emulated). After the button is clicked once, it is replaced with indicating that subsequent click will lead to force termination of the application, for example on Unix SIGKILL is sent.
	Restore Layout	Click this button to have the changes to the current layout abandoned and return to the default state.
	Pin Tab	Click this button to pin or unpin the current tab. You may need to pin a tab to prevent it from closing automatically when the maximum number of tabs is reached in this window.
	Close Ctrl+Shift+F4	Click this button to close the selected tab of the Run tool window and terminate the current process.