“Port 4200 is already in use” when running the ng serve command

Question

I am learning angular 2 and for the first time I am using the angular CLI project to create a sandbox project.

I was able to run the command \"ng serve\" and it wor

Answer 1

If you are using VSCode, you have the option to kill terminal and add a new terminal. Close the tab and open a new tab. It worked for me.

Edited: Use ctrl+c and press y. With out killing terminal also, You can proceed. If you want to open a new instance of visual studio and run a different application , you can use ng serve --port 4401.