Troubleshoot port error - TheEvergreenStateCollege/upper-division-cs-23-24 GitHub Wiki

If you ended up exiting out of the port without stopping the port, either by frantically pressing Ctrl-Z like me or for some other reason, follow these steps from Paul Swisher mentioned in the discord

" If your node server.js process is a zombie because AWS disconnected you, you can grep for the process ID and kill it.

ps -a | grep node

you'll get a number, like 10026

then you kill it with sudo kill -KILL <pid>

and then try again node server.js

in your API server directory. To let you maintain visibility of your long-running node server.js process, consider using tmux are listed above. "