How to restart a node.js server

Question

I\'ve installed and is running a node.js server on osx. I\'ve dled a chat module and is happily running it. I\'ve altered some pieces and need to restart the server to see t

Answer 1

If I am just run the node app from console (not using forever etc) I use control + C, not sure if OSX has the same key combination to terminate but much faster than finding the process id and killing it, you could also add the following code to the chat app you are using and then type 'exit' in the console whenever you want to close down the app.

process.stdin.resume();
process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');

process.stdin.on('data', function(data) {
  if (data == 'exit\n') process.exit();
});