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 ran into an issue where I have multiple node servers running, and I want to just kill one of them and redeploy it from a script.

Note: This example is in a bash shell on Mac.

To do so I make sure to make my node call as specific as possible. For example rather than calling node server.js from the apps directory, I call node app_name_1/app/server.js

Then I can kill it using:

kill -9 $(ps aux | grep 'node\ app_name_1/app/server.js' | awk '{print $2}')

This will only kill the node process running app_name_1/app/server.js.

If you ran node app_name_2/app/server.js this node process will continue to run.

If you decide you want to kill them all you can use killall node as others have mentioned.