Stop node.js program from command line

Question

I have a simple TCP server that listens on a port.

var net = require(\"net\");

var server = net.createServer(function(socket) {
    socket.end(\"Hello!\\n\"         


        

Answer 1

I'm adding this answer because for many projects with production deployments, we have scripts that stop these processes so we don't have to.

A clean way to manage your Node Server processes is using the forever package (from NPM).

Example:

Install Forever

npm install forever -g

Run Node Server

forever start -al ./logs/forever.log -ao ./logs/out.log -ae ./logs/err.log server.js

Result:

info: Forever processing file: server.js

Shutdown Node Server

forever stop server.js

Result

info: Forever stopped process: uid command script forever pid id logfile uptime [0] sBSj "/usr/bin/nodejs/node" ~/path/to/your/project/server.js 23084 13176 ~/.forever/forever.log 0:0:0:0.247

This will cleanly shutdown your Server application.