Debugging nodebb

[dangeRuss]

I'm trying to figure out how to write a plugin, so I'm trying to set up a development environment so I could step through code.

I tried webstorm, but I'm getting the dreaded EADDRINUSE error

Debugger listening on [::]:61236
Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::61236
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1020:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1043:20)
    at Agent.Server._listen2 (net.js:1258:14)
    at listen (net.js:1294:10)
    at net.js:1404:9
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:83:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:104:9)

Here's the command line that webstorm runs.

"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\WebStorm 2017.2.4\bin\runnerw.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" --debug-brk=61236 --expose_debug_as=v8debug C:\web\nodebb\NodeBB\nodebb dev

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[julian]

Looks like you already have a NodeBB instance running... or maybe something else running on port 61236.

Try checking out ps aux | grep node and killing off the other NodeBB process, if there is one.

[dangeRuss]

@julian said in Debugging nodebb:

Looks like you already have a NodeBB instance running... or maybe something else running on port 61236.

Try checking out ps aux | grep node and killing off the other NodeBB process, if there is one.

Thanks to @ben_lubar I was able to get this working. Turns out I needed to start app.js not nodebb because nodebb would fork and screw up the debugging.