I find it strange that you tried Webstorm and not Atom - considering Atom and all of it's packages are written in JavaScript (or transpiled to it), you can give

I find it strange that you tried Webstorm and not Atom - considering Atom and all of it's packages are written in JavaScript (or transpiled to it), you can give it any functionality using the language you're already using - JS. I find Atom to be great for working with Node.js, and there's already an existing package for pretty much any functionality you could need, such as a Node.js debugger: https://atom.io/packages/node-debugger https://atom.io/packages/node-debugger