how to end ng serve or firebase serve

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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.

score 255 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 08 '18 at 16:31

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

ctrl + c

edited Aug 08 '18 at 16:31

Jonathan

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answered Aug 22 '16 at 13:16

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I have ng serve running in a console window, and it just is not responding to ctrl+c at all. – Shawn de Wet Feb 04 '17 at 07:45
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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 – Adir Dayan Oct 27 '20 at 17:55
@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. – user1931751 Feb 02 '21 at 16:03

score 38 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 10 '18 at 12:41

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

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answered Apr 06 '17 at 10:02

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Ctrl+c twice needed – Muhammad Nadeem Feb 22 '18 at 11:02
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@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. – André Kool Aug 10 '18 at 12:40
Actually the first time shows the prompt `Terminate batch job (Y/N)?` and it looks like the second time forces the termination. – Patrick May 25 '20 at 03:23

score 38 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 21 '19 at 04:41

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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

answered Oct 21 '19 at 04:41

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Seems unnecessarily hard when you can use Ctrl+C ? – Caltor Feb 03 '20 at 15:25
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@Caltor when you close that terminal but the server is running it is very much helpful in that scenario – Vishal Sharma Jun 09 '20 at 07:15
@Caltor in my case Ctrl+C in the console was just giving me ^C which is totally useless. – Zahari Kitanov Aug 11 '20 at 09:14
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Did the job for me on Windows 10. Thanks. – webpreneur Nov 12 '20 at 11:08
only works on cmd, doesn't run with Bash – Ray1618 Jul 11 '23 at 13:19

score 37 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 30 '18 at 10:35

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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>

answered Oct 30 '18 at 10:35

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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 – Yacino Jan 25 '19 at 10:54
taskkill /F /IM node.exe (Careful: this force closes all instances of node.exe on Windows) – kirodge May 09 '19 at 09:08
thanks for this. this is what i needed since my app was still running even after shutting down webstorm – gdubs May 12 '21 at 07:45

Ben Taliadoros · Answer 5 · 2018-08-10T12:33:18.073

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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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answered Jun 13 '17 at 11:23

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score 11 · Answer 6 · edited Mar 21 '18 at 14:38

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ctrl + c OR ctrl + Pause/Break

Both will ask for Terminate batch job, then press Y or y and click enter.

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answered Mar 21 '18 at 09:39

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[ctrl] + [Pause/Break] did it for me on Powershell 7/Windows 10, too! – AsGoodAsItGets Jan 01 '23 at 21:29

score 4 · Answer 7 · edited May 31 '21 at 18:10

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for stop angular project press Ctrl+C twice , then press Y , then press Enter

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score 2 · Answer 8 · edited Feb 03 '20 at 15:27

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With Windows 10 / Powershell ctrl + c did not work; Powershell tried to gracefully stop the app.

Used normal cmd and had no issues stopping the ng serve with ctrl + c.

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answered Sep 21 '18 at 23:37

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Pooja Khatri · Answer 9 · 2020-01-08T07:00:02.780

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Can use

killall -9

The killall command can be used to send a signal to a particular process by using its name. It means if you have five versions of the same program running, the killall command will kill all five.

Or you can use

pgrep "ng serve"

which will find the process id of ng and then you can use following command.

kill -9 <process_id>

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answered Jan 06 '20 at 05:36

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I like this and you can shorten it even more with the following: ``kill -9 `pgrep "ng serve"` `` – Mike Kormendy Jul 22 '22 at 03:05

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 27 '17 at 04:59

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it is enough to modify something in your text editor and reload localhost. all your connection will be lost nd you have opsibility to ng serve the new project in the console.

answered Aug 27 '17 at 04:59

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Feb 08 '19 at 23:04

I was trying to run this from within the Visual Studio 2017 Package Manager Console. None of the above suggestions worked.

See this link where Microsoft states "The solution is not to use package manager for angular development, but instead use powershell command line. ".

score -2 · Answer 12 · answered Oct 05 '18 at 03:22

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----Ctrl + c then choose Y from the Y/N option provided.

answered Oct 05 '18 at 03:22

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This answer duplicates existing answers and adds nothing new. In fact is also lacks better formatting present in other previous answers. – Caltor Feb 03 '20 at 15:28

score -2 · Answer 13 · answered Oct 08 '19 at 11:55

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Exit the IDE and boots up IDE again , try it.

answered Oct 08 '19 at 11:55

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Only relevant if you are running ng serve inside the IDE terminal – Caltor Feb 03 '20 at 15:26

score -3 · Answer 14 · edited May 01 '19 at 11:39

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On macOS Mojave 10.14.4, you can also try Command ⌘ + Q in a terminal.

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that kills terminal, not ng serve command – pixel May 01 '21 at 23:54

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