WebStorm debugger not working when debuggin NPM script, saying Process finished with exit code -1073741510 (0xC000013A: interrupted by Ctrl+C)

my webstorm debugger works fine if I simply run, say, my server.js directly in debug mode. However, when I run an NPM script in debug mode (npm start for instance), I get the following exception:

Process finished with exit code -1073741510 (0xC000013A: interrupted by Ctrl+C)

I use Webstorm WebStorm 2016.1.2 Build #WS-145.971, built on May 1, 2016 JRE: 1.8.0_77-b03 x86 JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM by Oracle Corporation

My Node version is 5.11.0

I run it Windows 7, my colleague is running Windows 10 with same problem.

Did anyone come across this problem yet?

there could be many reasons for this - here are just some of my thoughts which may be useful to someone:

maybe some problem of the IDE: e.g. in this case caused by old watch variables

• try to clear the ide/debugger state: e.g. delete breakpoints, watches, etc.
• try: Invalidate caches / Restart

maybe just an early exit
I had one case in our node-tests, where some part of the code just called process.exit(0) before the async test-function had finished. This also caused the (confusing) console output:

Process finished with exit code -1073741510 (0xC000013A: interrupted by Ctrl+C)