Stop Node server

Windows machines:

Need to kill a Node.js server, and you do not run any other Node process, you can tell your machine to kill all processes named node.exe. It looks like this:

taskkill /im node.exe

If the process continues, you can add /fflags to force process termination :

taskkill /f /im node.exe

If you need more fine-grained control and only need to kill the server running on a specific port, you can use it netstatto find the process ID, and then send a kill signal. So, in your case, the location of the port where8080 you can run the following command:

C:\>netstat -ano | find "LISTENING" | find "8080"

The output of fifth column is the process ID:

  TCP    0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 14828 TCP [::]:8080 [::]:0 LISTENING 14828

Then you can use it to kill the process taskkill /pid 14828. If the process refused to quit, then simply /f(force) parameters added to the command.

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Linux machines:

This process is almost identical. You can kill all Node processes running on the machine (-$SIGNAL if SIGKILLless than you use ):

killall node

Or you can use netstat, you can find the PID listening on the port of the process:

$ netstat -nlp | grep :8080 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1073/node

In this case, the process ID is a digital process before the sixth column name, then you can pass it to the killcommand:

$ kill 1073

If the process refused to quit, then simply use the -9logo, which is SIGTERMand can not be ignored:

$ kill -9 1073

This paper reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14790910/stop-all-instances-of-node-js-server