Kill it
You ever get this one?
{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:8080 at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1036:11) at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1059:20) at Server._listen2 (net.js:1252:14) at listen (net.js:1288:10) at net.js:1398:9 at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:77:11) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9) code: ‘EADDRINUSE’, errno: ‘EADDRINUSE’, syscall: ‘listen’, address: ‘0.0.0.0’, port: 8080 } Or something like it?
Here’s a one liner to kill that process.
kill -9 `lsof -ti tcp:8080` This gets you the process ID of the application listening on port 8080 and passes it as a parameter to kill.
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