Webstorm No V8 Heap snapshot file created

Looks like you have taken Webstorm memory snapshot, not your app one:) Please use Take heap snapshot button in Run tool window toolbar to take a snapshot - see https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/2018.1/v8-cpu-and-memory-profiling.html

Like I said in my first message, I thought I did try the toolbar, or else I cant figure out how to make it appear.

Above is what I have been clicking. Is this it?

No; it's for capturing Webstorm snapshots (same as Tools | Capture memory snapshots); you should have been using Run tool window toolbar button, not the one from the main toolbar. and, of course, you should run your configuration first

Yes I've been running my configuration first but I see no such button anywhere, nor is it in the Tools menu.

How do I find the proper button?

Also, I had alot of trouble installing the npm v8-profiler on my machine:

From console I ran

sudo npm install -g v8-profiler

Results:

> v8-profiler@5.7.0 preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler

> node -e 'process.exit(0)'

> v8-profiler@5.7.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler

> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(undefined): https://node-inspector.s3.amazonaws.com/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64.tar.gz

node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for v8-profiler@5.7.0 and node@8.7.0 (node-v57 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)

node-pre-gyp ERR! Tried to download(404): https://node-inspector.s3.amazonaws.com/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64.tar.gz

node-pre-gyp ERR! Pre-built binaries not found for v8-profiler@5.7.0 and node@8.7.0 (node-v57 ABI, unknown) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)

gyp ERR! configure error

gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build'

gyp ERR! System Darwin 16.7.0

gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64/profiler.node" "--module_name=profiler" "--module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64"

gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler

gyp ERR! node -v v8.7.0

gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2

gyp ERR! not ok

node-pre-gyp ERR! build error

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64/profiler.node --module_name=profiler --module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64' (1)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:927:16)

node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)

node-pre-gyp ERR! System Darwin 16.7.0

node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"

node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler

node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v8.7.0

node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.39

node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok

Failed to execute '/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64/profiler.node --module_name=profiler --module_path=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/v8-profiler/build/profiler/v5.7.0/node-v57-darwin-x64' (1)

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! errno 1

npm ERR! v8-profiler@5.7.0 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`

npm ERR! Exit status 1

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Failed at the v8-profiler@5.7.0 install script.

npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

if v8-profiler is not installed, you can't expect it to work... No surprise that the button is not there.

please see https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions for some hints on fixing npm permissions issues

I have successfully installed v8-profiler - still no buttons. I give up.

Please provide screenshots of your Run configuration, V8 profiling tab, and Run tool window (shown when executing this configuration)