How to stop app that node.js express 'npm start'

node.js, npm

Solution

Yes, npm provides for a stop script too:

`npm help npm-scripts`

prestop, stop, poststop: Run by the npm stop command.

Set one of the above in your package.json, and then use `npm stop`

`npm help npm-stop`

You can make this really simple if you set in `app.js`,

process.title = myApp;

And, then in scripts.json,

"scripts": {
    "start": "app.js"
    , "stop": "pkill --signal SIGINT myApp"
}

That said, if this was me, I'd be using `pm2` or something the automatically handled this on the basis of a git push.

Problem

You build node.js app with express v4.x then start your app by npm start. My question is how to stop the app? Is there npm stop? EDIT to include the error when implement npm stop ``` /home/nodetest2# npm stop > nodetest2@0.0.1 stop /home/nodetest2 > pkill -s SIGINT nodetest2 pkill: invalid argument for option 's' -- SIGINT npm ERR! nodetest2@0.0.1 stop: `pkill -s SIGINT nodetest2` npm ERR! Exit status 2 ```

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