So, for some reason, my connection to a remote db was very flaky today. This caused nodemon to crash in VS Code and trusty Ctrl-C didn’t get me out of it.
Since this was happening on a Windows machine, I new it was that time…
Time to figure out how to quickly identify and kill the process from the terminal.
Here’s what I discovered: First step is to identify the process by port with the netstat command (here searching for port 3737)
netstat -ano | finstr:3737
You should see output something like this:
Identify the process, 48280 in this case. Then kill the process with TaskKill
TaskKill /PID 48280 /F
Et, voilà!