Vaadin Designer shows an empty layout in IntelliJ IDEA

[Tymur-Lohvynenko-Epicor]

Steps to reproduce

• clone designer-tutorial project
• run project
• open main-view.ts or contact-form.ts in IntelliJ IDEA

Actual behavior

I get an empty layout, Vaadin Designer does not render components

I've got errors com.vaadin.designer2.server.NodeServerNpmImportResolver - Wait on node server timed out. java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException in logs.
See idea-logs.txt

Expected behavior

Vaadin Designer renders components(buttons, textfields, comboboxes)

IDE, Designer and OS version

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.6 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-233.15026.9, built on March 21, 2024
Runtime version: 17.0.10+1-b1087.23 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 11.0
Vaadin Designer version: 4.6.26

[ofenhorn]

I had the same issue and found a workaround that works for me.
The problem seems to be that the designer can't execute the node binary because it is in a different directory.
My fix was to create a link to the real binary by executing
mklink /H %userprofile%\.vaadin\designer-node-server\node.exe %userprofile%\.vaadin\node\node.exe