In this article, we will show you how to kill a process running on a particular port.

When you are working with Angular, React or Node/Express projects you may see an error like Port 4200 is already in use or Error: Listen EADDRINUSE: Address already in use.

Let’s try to kill the process running on the 4200 port.

For linux users:

You could also try this:

For windows users:

Open the cmd as administrator. Type below command in cmd.

And then, find a port with port number 4200. Let’s say we found that port number 4200 is used by pid 18932. Run the following command.

I hope you find this article helpful.
Thank you for reading. Happy Coding..!! 🙂