Debug HTTP request in node.js Express using PhpStorm

Question

I created a node.js Express app using PhpStorm v2021.1 ( File -> New Project -> Express ) and when I run it ( localhost:3000 ) it runs successfully.

Then I want to debug my app API that respond to a HTTP post request. So I made HTTP request as below:

Then I add new configuration as below:

Finally I try click to debug:

But I can not see post request URL and data, so app runs like there is no any request:

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Debugging express api works fine for me; not sure what you are debugging, and what's the reason for adding Node.js run configuration to Before launch of your HTTP request configuration: a process added to Before launch has to return an exit code, the main process is waiting for its exit code to start and thus doesn't start until the first process terminates. This is the way Before launch is designed - it's supposed to be used to run some sort of pre-processing before running the main process. But bin/www app doesn't exit, it starts the server, and it has to be running to make your API work.

Please remove your Node.js config from Before launch , start it separately in debugger (by choosing bin/www run configuration and hitting Debug ) and then run your GET / POST requests to get the breakpoints in your application code hit