wslnodejs

Tool, allowing to use nodejs from WSL environment in WebStorm (any IntelliJ presumably)

Why?

I have a Grunt set up, which calls bash scripts and works perfectly in WSL. I used to call grunt from separate console, but then found shortcut in IDE, which didn't work, and thought hey, why not? Solution is to make WebStorm to call node inside WSL. You can make a simple .bat file to call

wsl node

But WebStorm also passes absolute paths as arguments. WSL doesn't understand those, so...

How does it work?

Heart of the project - wslnode.js. All this script does - transforms windows paths to WSL paths and passes those args to nodejs inside WSL. Very easy!

Usage

1. Go to your WebStorm settings: Ctrl + Alt + S
2. Go into Languages & Frameworks -> Node.js and NPM
3. Set node.bat, which you will find here as your nodejs interpreter

Now those grunt tasks can run from WebStorm.

What is next?

I have only tested this with Grunt tasks. Would be nice to figure out how to make IDE work with correct NPM.