NW.js and WebStorm

Question

I am trying to get NW.js to work well with WebStorm. I have it so that It runs the nw.js project. However, WebStorm seems completely unable to resolve any of the dependencies such as nw.Menu().

The documentation says that nw.gui does not require you to require or in my case import. I can not seem to find anything on how to fix this online. So how do I get WebStorm to resolve these?

Answer 1

I'm not too sure about all this myself, but here is how I do it anyway:

1. Go to settings (ctrl-alt-s), Languages & Frameworks, Libraries.

2. Click download. Change dropdown from Official libraries to Typescript community stubs.

3. Find node-webkit. This is the old name for nw.js. There is no stub for nw.js yet that I know of. Download and install.

4. This is usually enough for other libraries, but for some reason I must fix the scopes for it to work with nw.js. Therefore click manage scopes.

5. Choose your project root directory, and click on the space to the right of the directory below Library. Make sure node-webkit is checked.

With that done I was able to resolve dependencies and get code completions for nw.js. It might be old though but at least it's something.