Being also an IDE guy I must admit I find also a bit painful to get back to plain text editors. I normally use Eclipse + the JavaScript plugin but mainly becaus

Being also an IDE guy I must admit I find also a bit painful to get back to plain text editors. I normally use Eclipse + the JavaScript plugin but mainly because I already have open Eclipse for other projects. But anyways, I just wanted to point out what will be obvious for many and is that node-inspector is a superb tool for real-time debugging. ( https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector https://github.com/node-inspector/node-inspector ) No need to go to a full-IDE if the only thing you're missing is that.