How to kill the process on localhost 3000 port on window

Fred Wong
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1 min readMar 24, 2019

I ran a Node.js application on localhost:3000 but it was crashed. When I tried to run it again and the old process was still there and I needed to kill it in order to run my node application.

Here is the solution:

  1. netstat -ano | findstr :yourPortNumber
  2. taskkill /PID typeyourPIDhere /F

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