node.jsexpressnode-inspector

How to stop the node.js inspector / Chrome Debugger on SIGINT?


I have the following code to capture a ^C from the terminal and gracefully shutdown my Express app:

process.on('SIGINT', () => {
    console.log('SIGINT received ...');
    console.log('Shutting down the server');

    server.close(() => {
        console.log('Server has been shutdown');
        console.log('Exiting process ...');
        process.exit(0);
    });
});

However if I start my node instance with --inspect, then the above code fails to stop the inspector and the Chrome debugger. When I restart my application, I get the following error:

Starting inspector on 127.0.0.1:9229 failed: address already in use

How do I gracefully stop my app to avoid this error?

Full code available here.


Solution

  • It seems that VSCode, Puppeteer, nodemon, express, etc. causes this problem, you ran a process in the background or just closed the debugging area [browser, terminal, etc. ] or whatever , anyway, you can in CMD run

    $ ps ax | grep node
    

    then

    $ killall -9 node
    

    it is not the best solution, also, i may suggest that you look for the process using this port then send close signal

    $ sudo ss -lptn 'sport = :9229'
    

    OR

    $ sudo netstat -nlp | grep :9229
    

    OR

    $ sudo lsof -n -i :9229 | grep LISTEN
    

    THEN:

    $ sudo kill <pid>
    

    OR JUST [the two steps in one]

    $ sudo kill `sudo lsof -t -i:9229`
    

    OR

    $ sudo kill $(sudo lsof -t -i:9229)