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Server still running after stopping Nodemon
See original GitHub issuenodemon -v: 2.0.7node -v: 14.17.0- Operating system/terminal environment: WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04
Expected behaviour
The server stops after using ctrl + c, and not run in background
Actual behaviour
The server doesn’t stops after ctrl + c and it keeps runs in background even after uninstalling
Steps to reproduce
I started the server using nodemon and my script was "server": "npx nodemon app.js" and ran npm server start
But server is still running in the Browser, I can’t start any other server on that same port i.e 3000
app.js is a simple express app
Issue Analytics
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- Created 2 years ago
- Comments:11 (5 by maintainers)
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Well, it’s not
After further tests using the repo above it seems that nodemon works just fine. Using
nodemon index.jsthe server does restart as expected. So the issue is more onnpm-watch, for me at least.https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/75162562/125225811-2b274180-e2d0-11eb-9987-bc6c23e9cda8.mp4