stop all instances of node.js server

Question

This is my first time working with Node.js and I ran into this problem:

I have started a Node server through the plugin of an IDE. Unfortunately, I cannot use the ID

Answer 1

if you want to kill a specific node process , you can go to command line route and type:

ps aux | grep node

to get a list of all node process ids. now you can get your process id(pid), then do:

kill -9 PID

and if you want to kill all node processes then do:

killall -9 node

-9 switch is like end task on windows. it will force the process to end. you can do:

kill -l

to see all switches of kill command and their comments.