how to end ng serve or firebase serve

Question

I've been doing web development with Angular2 and have been using both Angular2 and Firebase to run local servers. I haven't been able to find a command similar to typing quit when using Ionic to create a server, so I have to close the terminal tab each time. Is there a way to end the server and get my terminal tab back?

Thanks.

Solution 1

You can use the following command to end an ongoing process:

ctrl + c

Solution 2

Try using ctrl + c twice to get the prompt for terminating the batch job.

Solution 3

If you cannot see the "ng serve" command running, then you can do the following on Mac OSX (This should work on any Linux and Uni software as well).

ps -ef | grep "ng serve"

From this, find out the PID of the process and then kill it with the following command.

kill -9 <PID>

Solution 4

I was able to stop via this on Windows for Angular 8:

Step 1: Find 4200 process

netstat -ano | findstr :4200

Step 2: Kill that process:

taskkill /PID <PID> /F

Solution 5

If ctrl + c doesn't work use this:

ctrl +shift+ c

Sometimes people change the behaviour of ctrl + c for copy/pasting so you may need this.

Of course, you should also ensure that the terminal window has keyboard focus, ctrl + c won't work if your browser window has focus.

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Comments

[Shawn de Wet]

I have ng serve running in a console window, and it just is not responding to ctrl+c at all.

[Muhammad Nadeem]

Ctrl+c twice needed

[André Kool]

@Jonathan Please make sure you fix as much as possible when you suggest an edit. In this case make sure the sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a point for example.

[Yacino]

Thanks you that helped me. If you are on Windows, just open the task manager and kill the node.exe process. Hope this will help

[kirodge]

taskkill /F /IM node.exe (Careful: this force closes all instances of node.exe on Windows)

[Sylhare]

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[Caltor]

Seems unnecessarily hard when you can use Ctrl+C ?

[Caltor]

Only relevant if you are running ng serve inside the IDE terminal

[Caltor]

This answer duplicates existing answers and adds nothing new. In fact is also lacks better formatting present in other previous answers.

[Patrick]

Actually the first time shows the prompt Terminate batch job (Y/N)? and it looks like the second time forces the termination.

[Vishal Sharma]

@Caltor when you close that terminal but the server is running it is very much helpful in that scenario

[Alreadytakenindeed]

@Caltor in my case Ctrl+C in the console was just giving me ^C which is totally useless.

[Adir D]

In case of using IntelliJ, pay attention to open the first console u used, ng is still running there, you might have multiple console tabs opened

[webpreneur]

Did the job for me on Windows 10. Thanks.

[user1931751]

@ShawndeWet: same here, on Windows 10 with angular 10.x.x; however, it seems to take a minute or 2 to respond. Pressed CTRL+C and 2 minutes later I had the "abort batch process (y/N)" prompt. Edit: pressing ctrl+c multiple times doesn't seem to reduce this time.

[pixel]

that kills terminal, not ng serve command

[gdubs]

thanks for this. this is what i needed since my app was still running even after shutting down webstorm

[phancuongviet]

It worked for me! thanks