How Do I Shut Down My Express Server Gracefully When Its Process Is Killed?

Question

When running my Express application in production, I want to shut down the server gracefully when its process is killed (i.e. a SIGTERM or SIGINT is sent).

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Answer 1

Try the NPM express-graceful-shutdown module, Graceful shutdown will allow any connections including to your DB to finish, not allow any fresh/new ones to be established. Since you are working with express that may be the module you are looking for, however a quick NPM search will reveal a whole list of modules suited to Http servers etc.