Node.js Port 3000 already in use but it actually isn't?

Question

I have been working with a node.js project for a few weeks and it has been working great. Usually, I use npm start to run my app and view it in a browser on loc

Answer 1

It may be an admin process running in the background and netstat doesn't show this.
Use tasklist | grep node to find the PID of this admin process and then kill PID