
When you start running an API nodeJS server, a frontend web server, and a test case, a NodeJS process is created. You may also use the command line or the Visual Studio code terminal to run all of these.
Angular, React, and Vuejs are examples of front-end frameworks.
Sometimes, You may need to stop a single process or all processes for debugging. Other way, You closed Visual Studio code without terminating the node process running in terminal. For instance, suppose you’re using the ng command to execute an Angular application.
ng serve
It stars the server and listens 4100 port.
Each service or operation in an operating system like Windows, Linux, or Unix creates a process, and each node does the same.
Process Id assigned to each process.
You must first kill the process in order to stop it.
You will learn how to kill or stop node server - single node process - all node instances in this tutorial.
How to kill node process in Linux
In this example,
You can get process id with port number or named process
One way, get process ID for a given an 8080 port using below command.
netstat -lpn |grep :8080
Other way, get process ID for a given node process name using below command.
ps aux | grep node
This gives an output something like this and it contains Process Id
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 8795/node
you kill nodejs process by process id.
In this case, ProcessId is 8795
kill the process using -f forcefully option
kill -9 8795
This kills or stop single specific node process.
How to stop all instances of node.js server in Unix
It is simple to kill all node process using below command
killall -9 node
How to stop single or instances of node.js server in windows
nodejs process are running an executable file node.exe in windows.
One way, stop single node process in Windows Find all process ID’s for a given port listening.
netstat -ano | find "LISTENING" | find "4100"
It list out all process ids for given port 4100
TCP 0.0.0.0:4100 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 17846
you can kill process using taskkill command
taskkill /pid 17846
use /f
option for killing single process forcefully.
taskkill /f /pid 17846
Second way, kill all node process in Windows
You need to kill this file using below command
taskkill
is an command to kill in process in Windows
taskkill /im node.exe
use /f option to kill it forcefully
taskkill /im /f node.exe
This stops and kill all node process in windows
Conclusion
Above all, kill
and killall
commands are available in Mac and Unix Operating System. So It works on all ubuntu and UNIX flavors OS.
To Sum up, You learned how to stop and stop all process in Windows and Unix